(a) Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGGRESSIVE MANNER.
A. Approaching or speaking to a person before, during, or after soliciting if that conduct is intended or is likely to cause a reasonable person to fear bodily harm to oneself or another, or damage to or loss of property or otherwise be intimidated into giving money or other thing of value.
B. Continuing to solicit from a person after the person has given a negative response to the soliciting.
C. Intentionally touching or causing physical contact with another person without that person's consent in the course of soliciting.
D. Intentionally blocking or interfering with the safe or free passage of a pedestrian or vehicle by any means, including unreasonably causing a pedestrian or vehicle to take evasive action to avoid physical contact.
E. Using violent or threatening gestures toward a person solicited.
F. Following the person being solicited.
PUBLIC PLACE. A place where a governmental entity has title, to which the public or a substantial group of persons has access, including but not limited to any street, highway, parking lot, school, place of amusement, park, or playground.
SOLICITING. Asking for money, objects of value, or soliciting the sale of goods or services with the intention that the money or object be transferred, the goods sold, or services rendered immediately at that time, and at that place. Soliciting shall include using the spoken, written, or printed word, bodily gestures, signs or other means with the purpose of obtaining an immediate donation of money or other thing of value or soliciting the sale of goods or services.
(b) Prohibited acts.
(1) No person shall solicit in an aggressive manner in any public place.
(2) No person shall solicit on private property without first having obtained the permission of the owner or other person lawfully in possession of the property.
(3) No person shall solicit an operator or other occupant of a motor vehicle while the vehicle is in motion or part of traffic on a street or highway. This prohibition shall not include the advertisement of the sale of goods or services to be accomplished when the vehicle is no longer on a public street or highway.
(4) No person shall solicit by stating that funds are needed to meet a specific need, when the solicitor does not intend to use the funds to meet that need or does not have that need.
(1957 Rev. Ords., § 9.204; 1992 Code, § 26-13) (Ord. 86-80, passed 9-22-1980; Ord. 78-12, passed 10-16-2012) Penalty, see § 130.999