No peddler, solicitor, transient merchant, non-commercial door-to-door advocate or other person engaged in other similar activities shall conduct business in any of the following manners:
(A) Failing to provide proof of permit, registration or identification when requested, or carrying a permit or certificate or another person. Transient merchants must display their permit in a conspicuous place on their premises;
(B) Conducting business in a way that creates a threat to the public health, safety and welfare of any specific individual or the general public or otherwise operating one’s business in any manner that a reasonable person would find obscene, threatening or abusive;
(C) Shouting, crying out, blowing a horn, ringing a bell or using any sound amplifying device upon any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public places of the city or upon premises where sound of sufficient volume is emitted or produced therefrom to be capable of being plainly heard upon the streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public places for the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares or merchandise which the person proposes to sell;
(D) Claiming an exclusive right to any location in the public streets or any stationary location thereon or operating in a congested area where such operation might impede or inconvenience the public use of the streets. For the purpose of this subchapter, the judgment of a police officer, exercised in good faith, shall be deemed conclusive as to whether the area is congested and the public impeded or inconvenienced;
(E) Alleging false or misleading statements about the products or services being sold, including untrue statements of endorsement. No person shall claim to have the endorsement of the city based solely on the city’s issuance of a permit or certificate of registration;
(F) Conducting business before 9:00 a.m. and after 8:00 p.m.; and
(G) Remaining on the property of another when requested to leave.
(Prior Code, § 504.06) (Ord. 564, passed 06-26-1995; Ord. 834, passed 10-10-2009) Penalty, see § 113.999