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) Calling attention to his or her business or the items to be sold by means of blowing any horn or whistle, ringing any bell, except doorbells, crying out or by any other noise, so as to be unreasonably audible within any residence or enclosed building;
(B) Obstructing the free flow of traffic, either vehicular or pedestrian, on any street, sidewalk, alleyway or other public right-of-way;
(C) Conducting business in a way as to create a threat to the health, safety and welfare of any specific individual or the general public;
(D) Conducting business before 8:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m., or any time on Sunday;
(E) Failing to provide proof of license or registration, and identification when requested;
(F) Using the license or registration of another person;
(G) Making false or misleading statements about the products or services being sold, including untrue statements of endorsement. No peddler, solicitor or transient merchant shall claim to have the endorsement of the city solely based on the city having issued a license or certificate of registration to that person;
(H) Remaining on the property of another when requested to leave;
(I) Otherwise conducting business in any manner that a reasonable person would find obscene, threatening, intimidating or abusive; and/or
(J) Transient merchants are prohibited from conducting business in any residential district and shall comply with Ord. 827, as now adopted and hereinafter amended.
(1992 Code, § 488:35) (Ord. 1463, passed 1-4-2011)