It is declared unlawful for any person, firm or corporation or their agents to solicit upon the public streets or in any private residences or business houses within the corporate limits of this village any alms, charities, gifts, donations, contributions or benefices, whether for public or private benefit, unless the person, persons, firms, or corporations, or their agents, so soliciting shall have first secured from the Village Clerk a permit in writing specially authorizing him, them or it to conduct such operations within the limits of the village. A permit will be issued upon satisfactory proof that the solicitor is duly authorized to make such solicitation.
(1979 Code, Ch. 15, § 9) Penalty, see § 10.99