(a) Registration Required. No person shall act as a canvasser or solicitor in this City without first having registered as such with the Safety Director or his or her designee. The Safety Director or his or her designee shall issue a permit to each applicant and such permit shall be carried on the person at all times when engaged in such canvassing, solicitation, or sales and shown on request of any police officer or any person of whom a request for contribution or offer to sell is made. Each canvasser or solicitor shall provide a written receipt and, if applicable, a statement attesting to the organization's exempt status under Section 501 of the Federal Internal Revenue Code, if requested to do so by the person making a contribution or purchase. Such receipt shall show the name of the organization, amount of the contribution, and the date and shall be signed by the solicitor.
(b) Registration Application; Contents. Application for a permit shall be made upon a form provided by the Safety Director or his or her designee. Each application shall contain among other information, the name, address and the telephone number of the person completing the application; the name, address, and telephone number of the organization for which he purports to act; the name of an officer or other official of the organization; the nature of the goods or services for which he will take orders in the case of door-to-door salespersons in interstate commerce; the compensation, if any, which he or other canvassers or solicitors are to receive for their services and such other information as the Safety Director or his or her designee may require.
(c) Two Photographs. Two photographs of the applicant of approximate size (two inches by two inches), one of which shall be attached at all times to the certificate and the other of which shall be for the records of the Police Department.
(d) Income Tax. The City income tax form which shall be filled out and filed with the application.
(e) Six-Month Limitation. In no case shall any permit for canvassers or solicitors be valid for more than a six-month period. The permit shall state the expiration date thereof.
(f) Registration Revocation.
(1) Any permit issued hereunder shall be revoked by the Safety Director or his or her designee if the holder thereof is convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this Chapter, or has made a false material statement in the application.
(2) Immediately upon such revocation, written notice thereof shall be given by the Safety Director or his or her designee to the holder of the permit in person or by certified U.S. mail addressed to his residence address as set forth in the application, and if applicable to the firm or organization the holder of the permit represents. Immediately upon the giving of such notice, the permit shall become null and void. .
(Ord. 2009-32. Passed 6-8-09.)