The practice of being in and upon private residences and business places in the city by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, transient merchants, and transient vendors of merchandise not having been requested or invited to do so by the owner or owners, occupant or occupants of the private residences, and business places for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, and merchandise or for the purpose of disposing of or peddling or hawking the same is declared to be a nuisance and punishable as prescribed in this chapter. The Chief of Police is required and directed to suppress the same and to abate any such nuisance.
(Prior Code, § 5.12.010)