(A) Policy. It is the declared policy of the city that the occupant or occupants of the residence and business establishments in this city shall make the determination of whether peddlers shall be, or shall not be invited to their respective residences or business establishments in accordance with this section.
(B) Notice regulating peddlers.
(1) The occupant or occupants of the residences or business establishments in this city may give invitation to peddlers, or the refusal of invitation to peddlers, to any residence or business establishment, by posting a sign on or near the main entrance of the residence or business establishment, at least three inches by four inches in size, indicating the determination of the occupant or occupants, in letters at least one-third inch in height. The determination may be in substantially the following form:
ONLY PEDDLERS AND SOLICITORS REGISTERED
BY THE CITY OF QUINCY INVITED
or
NO PEDDLERS OR SOLICITORS INVITED
(2) The notice so exhibited shall constitute sufficient notice to any peddler of the determination by the occupant or occupants of the residence or business establishment of the information contained thereon. If no notice is placed thereon, the peddler may presume he or she is invited.
(C) Duty of peddlers. It shall be the duty of every peddler upon going onto any premises in the city to first examine any notice provided for pursuant to division (B) above, if any is attached, and be governed by the statement contained on the notice. If the notice states that no peddlers are invited, then the peddler shall immediately and peacefully depart from the premises. Any peddler who has gained entrance to any residence or business establishment, whether invited or not, shall immediately and peacefully depart from the premises when requested to do so by any occupant.
(D) Uninvited peddlers prohibited. It is hereby declared to be unlawful and shall constitute a nuisance for any person to go upon any premises, ring the doorbell upon or near any door, or create any sound in any other manner calculated to attract the attention of the occupant of the residence, for the purpose of securing an audience with the occupant thereof and engage in peddling, in defiance of the notice exhibited at the residence in accordance with the provisions hereof. Any peddler violating these provisions shall be deemed to have committed a trespass.
(E) Hours. No person shall make home solicitation between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. unless by prior invitation.
(1980 Code, § 19.611) Penalty, see § 120.99