(a) The Director of Public Safety shall separately establish and maintain a Peddlers Do Not Knock Registry and a Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry.
(b) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the City may require the City to place and maintain his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling on the Peddlers Do Not Knock Registry and/or the Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry by submitting a separate request for each registry on form(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, each of which shall contain the following information:
(1) The name of the person completing the form(s);
(2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be placed on the registry;
(3) The date the form was completed;
(4) A statement that No Peddlers or No Solicitors shall knock, ring the doorbell or otherwise call at this address, or words of similar import, on the applicable form;
(5) The exceptions, if any, which the person completing the form(s) wishes to be made to the requirement that Peddlers and/or Solicitors not call at his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling; and
(6) Such other information that verifies the identity of the person completing the form(s) as a lawful possessor and occupant as may be required by the Director of Public Safety.
(c) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment, or other dwelling in the City may require the City to remove his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling from the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry by submitting a separate Notice of Removal from either or both said registries on form(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, each of which shall contain the following information:
(1) The name of the person completing the form(s);
(2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be removed from each registry;
(3) The date the form was completed;
(4) A statement that the residence, home, apartment or other dwelling be removed from the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry, or words of similar import, on the applicable form; and
(5) Such other information that verifies the identity of the person completing the form(s) as a lawful possessor and occupant as may be required by the Director of Public Safety.
(d) The decision whether to place a residence, house, apartment or other dwelling on the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry, shall be solely that of the lawful possessor and occupant thereof, and no official, employee or other agent of the City shall interfere with said decision.
(e) A residence, house, apartment or other dwelling, after being lawfully placed on the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry shall remain on such Registry until the earliest of any of the following:
(1) The City receives a Notice of Removal pursuant to subsection (c) above;
(2) The City receives notice that the person who submitted the form pursuant to subsection (b) above is not or is no longer a lawful possessor or occupant of the premises; or
(3) The expiration of five (5) calendar years, expiring on December 31st of the fifth full calendar year, from the date of the form submitted pursuant to subsection (b) above.
(f) A copy of the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registries shall be made available for public inspection at all times on the internet website of the City of North Olmsted and during normal business hours of the City of North Olmsted at the office of the Director of Public Safety. (Ord. 2007-72. Passed 2-5-08.)