Whenever used in this ordinance unless a different meaning clearly applies in context:
(a) Board of Commissioners means the City Commission of the City of Paris, Tennessee;
(b) City Recorder means the City Recorder of the City of Paris, Tennessee;
(c) Contributions 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;
(d) Person means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, organization or league, and includes any trustee, receiver, assignee, or agent, or other similar representative thereof;
(e) Professional solicitor means any person who, for financial or other consideration, solicits contributions for, or on behalf of, a religious institution, 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 religious institution, who are engaged in the solicitation of contributions under the direction of such person, or a person who plans, conducts, manages, caries on or advised a religious institutions in connection with the solicitation of contributions.
(f) Religious institutions for the purpose of this section includes ecclesiastical or denominational organizations, churches, or established physical places for worship in this state at which non-profit religious services and activities are regularly conducted and carried on and shall also include those bona fide religious groups which do not maintain specific places of worship. Religious institutions also includes such separate groups or corporations which form an integral part of those institutions which are exempt from federal income tax as exempt organizations under the provisions of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, or a corresponding section of any subsequently enacted Federal Revenue Act and which are not primarily supported by funds solicited outside its own membership or congregation. Religious institutions for the purposes of this section also include such institutions soliciting contributions for the construction and maintenance of a house of worship or clergyman's residence.
(g) 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 will be used for a religious 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 religious purpose, where the name of a religious institution 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 a religious purpose, and shall 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 make a contribution for any religious 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.