(A) No person, while engaged in any profit or non-profit solicitation, shall knock at the door or ring the bell of any home, apartment, apartment building or other dwelling unit in the city upon which is displayed at the entrance a notice which reads “No Peddlers or Solicitors Allowed,” or which otherwise clearly purports to prohibit peddlers or solicitors on the premises, unless the peddler or solicitor is or has been invited on the premises by the owner, lessee or occupant thereof.
(‘97 Code, § 111.08)
(B) No peddler, solicitor, itinerant vendor or transient dealer, or any person on his or her behalf, shall blow a horn, ring a bell, or use any sound device, including any loudspeaking radio or sound amplifying system, upon any of the streets, alleys, parks or other public places of the city or any private premises in the city, where sound of sufficient volume is emitted or produced therefrom to be capable of being plainly heard upon the streets, avenues, alleys, parks or other public places, for the purpose of attracting attention to any goods, wares or merchandise which is being proposed to be sold.
(C) No person shall knowingly make a false or misleading representation in the course of soliciting a donation. False or misleading representations include, but are not limited to, the following, whether verbal or in writing:
(1) Stating that the donation is needed to meet a specific need, when the solicitor already has sufficient funds to meet that need and does not disclose that fact;
(2) Stating that the donation is needed to meet a need which does not exist;
(3) Stating that the solicitor is from out of town and stranded, when that is not true;
(4) Wearing a military uniform or other indication of military service, when the solicitor is neither a present nor former member of the service indicated;
(5) Wearing or displaying an indication of physical disability, when the solicitor does not suffer the disability indicated;
(6) Using any makeup or device to simulate any deformity;
(7) Stating that the solicitor has a minor child or other family member they are supporting who suffers from a medical condition, mental or physical disability, or deformity, when in fact that child or other family member does not suffer from a medical condition, mental or physical disability, or deformity and/or the person soliciting does not support that minor child or other family member;
(8) Stating that the person soliciting is unemployed when the person soliciting is not unemployed;
(9) Interfering or disrupting any activity or event occurring on public property as defined in this section.
(‘97 Code, § 111.09) (Ord. 60-79, passed 10-1-79; Am. Ord. 10-10, passed 5-4-10; Am. Ord. 5-13, passed 4-2-13; Am. Ord. 14-18, passed 10-16-18) Penalty, see § 111.99