For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CHARITABLE. Any activity or pursuit which has as its object, or which purports to have as its object, a benevolent, educational, patriotic, religious, philanthropic, civic, fraternal or social welfare purpose.
CONTRIBUTION. Any donation of food, clothing, money, property, subscription or pledge or any other thing of tangible value.
PROFESSIONAL PROMOTER. A person who, for compensation, plans, promotes, conducts, manages or carries on, or attempts to plan, promote, conduct, manage or carry on any drive or campaign for the purpose of soliciting contributions for or on behalf of any charitable purpose. A bond fide officer or regular employee of a charitable organization shall not be deemed a PROFESSIONAL PROMOTER by reason of his or her participation in charitable solicitations made by or on behalf of his or her employer.
PROFESSIONAL SOLICITOR. Any person employed for compensation by any person or charitable organization to make solicitations on behalf of any charitable purpose. A bona fide officer or regular employee of a charitable organization shall not be deemed a PROFESSIONAL SOLICITOR by reason of his or her participation in charitable solicitations made by or on behalf of his or her employer.
SOLICIT and SOLICITATION. The request, directly or indirectly, for money, credit, property, financial assistance or other things of value on the representation that such money, credit, property, financial assistance or other things of value will be used for a charitable purpose. These words shall also mean and include the following methods of securing such money, credit, property, financial assistance or other things of value:
(1) Any oral or written request;
(2) The making of any announcement to the local press, or on the radio or television, or by telephone of telegraph concerning a local appeal or campaign to which the public is requested to make a contribution for any charitable purpose connected therewith;
(3) The distribution, circulation, posting or publishing of any handbill, written advertisement or other local publication which directly or by implication seeks to obtain public support; and
(4) The sale of, or offer or attempt to sell, any advertisement, advertising space, book, card, tag, coupon, device, magazine, membership, merchandise, subscription, flower, ticket, candy, cookies or other tangible item in connection with which any appeal is made for charitable purpose, or where the name of any charitable agency is used or referred to in any such appeal as an inducement or reason for making any such sale, or when or where, in connection with any such sale, any statement is made that the whole or any part of the proceeds from any such sale will be donated to any charitable purpose.
(Prior Code, Title IV, Ch. I, Art. II, § 1)