No person shall perform any of the following acts while engaged in a charitable or a religious solicitation:
(A) No person shall solicit without a valid certificate of registration or authorization by the holder of valid certificate of registration.
(B) No person shall solicit without at all times wearing a badge as required by the provisions of this chapter.
(C) No person shall solicit at any dwelling, including but not limited to any house, apartment or condominium where there is a sign indicating “no solicitors,” “do not disturb” or other similar indication that the occupants thereof do not want to be solicited or have their privacy disturbed.
(D) No person shall represent in any manner that the city, its departments or officers have endorsed the certificate of registration holder or its solicitation.
(E) No person shall affix any object or place any object on the body of any person to whom solicitation is directed without their express consent.
(F) No person shall touch, brush up against or otherwise voluntarily come into physical contact with any person to whom solicitation is directed without their express consent.
(G) No person shall deliver any item of merchandise being sold or offered for sale in connection with any charitable or religious solicitation governed by this chapter, until such time as the person to whom solicitation is directed has paid the price asked for the merchandise and correct change has been returned.
(H) No person shall solicit any person who has indicated they do not wish to be solicited.
(I) No person shall represent in any manner that the certificate of registration is conducted for or on behalf of any person other than the certificate of registration holder.
(J) No person shall refuse to truthfully identify the certificate of registration holder on whose behalf the solicitation is being conducted when requested to do so by any person being solicited or fail to truthfully state the uses to which the solicitor's items will be put when requested to do so by any person being solicited.
(K) No person shall threaten any injury or damage to any person who declines to be solicited or make a contribution.
(L) No person shall accept or solicit any food stamps as a contribution.
(M) No person shall misrepresent his or her physical or mental health while soliciting.
(N) No person shall solicit between the hours of 5:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m., nor at any dwelling including but not limited to any house, apartment or condominium, on Saturdays, Sundays or legal holidays.
(O) No person shall fail to submit any information or report required by this chapter or knowingly make any false statement in any such report.
(P) Children are not to be used to solicit or offer for sale any merchandise, subscriptions, tickets or other device with the representation that proceeds are to be used for a charitable purpose unless accompanied by a responsible adult holding a certificate of registration issued pursuant to this chapter. No solicitation shall be conducted by children between the hours of sunset and 9:00 a.m.
(`83 Code, § 5.40.260) (Ord. 80-13 § 6 (part), 1980; Ord. 82-46 § 15, 1982)