(a) The Board shall designate one of its members to be Secretary of the Board and may fix his salary if any funds are available for this purpose.
(b) The Secretary of the Board shall investigate all applications of persons, organizations or associations desiring to solicit funds for charitable, religious, educational or benevolent purposes. If the Secretary, after such investigation, is satisfied that the purpose for such solicitation is a bona fide charitable, religious, educational or benevolent purpose; and that the proper proportion of the money subscribed or contributed will be used for the purpose for which the subscription or contribution is made, the Secretary shall issue to such applicant a card giving the name of the person so authorized to solicit, the purpose for which the funds are being solicited, the time within which solicitations of money, contributions or subscriptions are permitted, the manner in which such solicitation is authorized and whether the person soliciting funds is being paid for his services as such solicitor. However, it shall not be necessary for each solicitor to apply to the Board where more than one person is soliciting for the same purpose, but a general application for such persons may be made by any one of them and cards for all such solicitors may be issued upon one application therefor.
(c) If the Secretary of the Board, after investigation of any application for a permit to solicit funds as provided in this article, decides that such permit should not be issued, he shall decline to issue such permit, and the person whose application has been declined by the Secretary shall have the right to appeal to the Board. The Board shall hear and determine the application and appeal at an open meeting, after notice thereof to the applicant and appellant, and the decision of a majority of the members of the Board after such hearing, shall be binding on all of the parties thereto. (1975 Code Sec. 16-6)