745.01 DEFINITIONS; DOOR TO DOOR SOLICITATION; LICENSE REQUIRED.
The purpose of regulating peddlers and solicitors is to protect residents of the City against fraud, and to ensure the safety of the residents by protecting them from intrusion into the privacy of their homes by licensing and regulating vendors and solicitors.
As used in this chapter:
(a) CANVASSER. Any person who seeks to disseminate any verbal or written lawful message including ideas, thoughts or messages regarding any cause, issue or religion without soliciting funds or donations; or any political candidate without acting as a solicitor and whose actions do not violate any local, state or federal law.
(b) CHARITABLE PURPOSE. Any purpose described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and any purpose for patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, benevolent, educational, civic, fraternal, veteran's medical and social research, humane, scientific, public health or environmental conservation objective.
(c) PEDDLING. Traveling from either residence to residence or door to door within the City, without having a previous appointment, for the purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain funds or exposing or offering for inspection or sale, goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuffs or any other property, tangible or intangible, of any nature whatsoever, or services, or for the purpose of taking or attempting to take orders for the purchase of goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuffs or other property, tangible or intangible, of any nature whatsoever, for future delivery, or of services to be furnished or performed in the future whether directly for the resident or on an indirect or "group" basis.
(d) SOLICITING. Traveling from residence to residence within the City, without having a previous appointment to visit the residence or residences visited for the sole purpose of obtaining or attempting to obtain funds for any cause or seeks opinions, preferences or other information for commercial purposes.
(e) RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION. An entity duly organized and operating in good faith and entitled to receive a declaration of current tax exempt status for religious purposes from the Internal Revenue Service and the duly organized branches and chapters of such organization.
(Ord. 024-2018. Passed 4-3-2018.)