This chapter shall apply to all peddlers, hawkers, transient vendors, itinerant merchants, solicitors, and persons engaged in gratuitous distribution, and to their agents and employees, regardless of the purpose or motive of their activities, whether for profit or for religious, charitable, benevolent, philanthropic, patriotic, political, or eleemosynary purposes, except that it shall not apply to newscarriers, to persons seeking to collect legitimate amounts due, to any government agency or official thereof in the pursuit of official duties, nor to entities operating under a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued by the State Commerce Commission or Federal Communications Commission. This chapter shall also not apply to members or designated representatives of the press engaged in traditional noncommercial press functions or to persons or organizations specifically exempted from this chapter by virtue of federal legislation or preemptive legislation passed by the state.
(Ord. 1004-87, passed 7-22-87)