The following activities are exempt from the provisions of this chapter:
(A) Advertisements in wireless, print or photographic medium generally available to the public, but this exception shall not permit solicitation by distribution of leaflets on county property;
(B) Commercial sales of supplies and office equipment to the County Purchasing Agent or, as permitted, to a department head, the Register of Deeds or the Sheriff, or the designated agent of those individuals. Further, nothing shall prohibit the demonstration of office supplies and/or office equipment by commercial sales representative at the request of the County Purchasing Agent, a department head, the Register of Deeds, the Sheriff or their designated agents;
(C) This section shall not apply to vending sales upon county owned property where the owner or rightful possessor of a vending machine or device has received oral or written approval by contract or lease for placement from the County Manager, or the County Purchasing Agent, for county owned offices, buildings, places of assembly and other real estate or from the Register of Deeds or the Sheriff, for their offices, respectively;
(D) This section shall not apply to the purchase or sale of goods determined to be “surplus” by the County Commissioners, to the purchase or sale of copies, maps or other archived information which is available to the public from any county office or agency in the ordinary course of that department’s business or affairs;
(E) This section shall not apply to court ordered or judicial sales or to the levy of fines, the payment of court costs, the collection of inspection fees or the delivery of medicine or medical services in any county or state office in that office’s ordinary course of business; and
(F) Solicitation by non-profit charities with permission by the County Manager.
(Ord. passed 10-7-1996)