(A) It is illegal for any person to engage in aggressive begging in any public place in the village, as those terms are defined herein.
(B) Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AGGRESSIVE BEGGING.
(a) To beg with intent to intimidate another person into giving money or goods.
(b) AGGRESSIVE BEGGING includes, but is not limited to, the following:
1. By coming within three feet of the person solicited after that person has indicated that he or she does not wish to make a donation;
2. By blocking the path of a person who attempts to walk or drive away from the panhandler;
3. By following a person who walks away from the panhandler;
4. By making unreasonable noise or offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display, or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language, either during the solicitation or following a refusal;
5. By panhandling within 50 feet of any bank building, automated teller machine, loan company, or check cashing facility;
6. By any statement, gesture, touching, or communication, which a reasonable person in the situation of the person solicited would perceive to be a threat.
BEG. To ask for money or goods or other thing of value as charity, whether by word, bodily gestures, signs or other means.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any road, alley lane, parking areas, sidewalk or any place, private or otherwise, adopted to and fitted for vehicular or pedestrian travel, that is in common use by the public with the consent, expressed or implied, of the owner or owners, and further, any public playground, school grounds, recreation grounds, parks, parkways, park drives, park paths, and rights-of-way open to the use of the public.
(Ord. 21-02, passed 5-4-2021)