This chapter is not intended to interfere with legitimate business activities of peddlers, as the same are herein defined, whether the same be local or interstate. These provisions are intended only to, as nearly as possible, ferret out the illegitimate, or confidence, operators, and to regulate, and control, all those who would use their unique presence on property within the city, either in person, or by means of a telephone contact, or their unique proximity to its residents, for purposes of harassment, nuisance, theft, or other unlawful activities.
(Prior Code, § 6.22)