Whenever used in this ordinance unless a different meaning clearly applies in context:
(a) Board of Commissioners means the City Commissioners of the City of Paris, Tennessee;
(b) Charitable means and includes the words patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, benevolent, educational, civic, humane, eleemosynary, or fraternal, either actual or purported;
(c) Charitable organization means a group which is or holds itself out to be a benevolent, educational, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, eleemosynary, or fraternal organization or any person who solicits or obtains contributions solicited from the public for charitable purposes;
(d) City Recorder means the City Recorder of the City of Paris, Tennessee;
(e) Contribution means and includes the words, alms, food, clothing, money, subscriptions, property, or donations under the guise of loaning money or property or any promise or grant of any money or property of any kind or value;
(f) Person means any individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, Jorganization or league, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, agent or other similar representative thereof;
(g) Professional solicitor means any person who, for financial or other consideration, solicits contributions for , or on behalf of, a charitable organization, whether such solicitation is preformed personally or through his agents, servants, or employees or through such agents, servants, or employees specially employed by or for a charitable organization, who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions under the direction of such a person, or a person who plans, conducts, manages, carries on or advises a charitable organization in connection with the solicitation of contributions;
(h) Solicit and solicitation means the request, directly or indirectly, by face to face, personal contact, for money, credit, profit, financial assistance, or other thing of value upon the plea or representation that such money, credit, profit, financial assistance or other thing of value will be used for a charitable purpose as those purposes are defined in this ordinance. For the purposes of this ordinance, solicit and solicitation shall also mean and include face to face, personal contact, for the purpose of the sale of, or for the attempt to sell, any advertisement, advertising space, book, card, chance, coupon, device, magazine, membership, merchandise, subscription, ticket or other thing in connection with which any appeal is made for any charitable purposes, where the name of a charitable organization 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 and be deemed to include any appeal, assembly, athletic or sports event, bazaar, benefit, campaign, contest, dance, drive, entertainment, exhibition, exposition, party, performance, picnic, sale or gathering, which the public is requested to patronize or to which the public is requested to make contribution for any charitable purpose connected therewith. A solicitation as defined herein shall be deemed completed when made, whether or not the person making the same receives any contribution or makes any sale referred to in this section.