In order to protect the people against the nuisance of the promiscuous distribution of handbills and circulars, particularly commercial handbills, the public interests, convenience and necessity requires the regulation thereof, and to that end the purposes of this section shall be as follows:
(A) To protect the people against the activities or operations of persons representing themselves as solicitors, canvassers or handbill distributors, by requiring the registration of all such solicitors, canvassers or handbill distributors, together with the names of their employers, and by regulating the business of handbill and advertising distribution through the imposition of reasonable license fees;
(B) To protect local residents against trespassing by solicitors, canvassers or handbill distributors on the private property of such residents, if they have given reasonable notice that they do not wish to be solicited by such persons or do not desire to receive handbills or advertising matter;
(C) To protect the people against the health and safety menace and the expense incident to the littering of the streets and public places by the promiscuous and uncontrolled distribution of advertising matter and commercial handbills; and
(D) To preserve to the people their constitutional rights to receive and disseminate information not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency and good morals and public order, by the promiscuous distribution of advertising and commercial circulars and the right to deliver noncommercial handbills to all who are willing to receive such handbills.
(1992 Code, § 111.01)