TITLE XI: BUSINESS REGULATIONS
   Chapter
      110.   HOUSE TO HOUSE SOLICITATIONS
      111.   CABLE TELEVISION
      112.   PAWNBROKERS
      113.   HORSE-DRAWN CARRIAGES
CHAPTER 110: HOUSE TO HOUSE SOLICITATIONS
Section
   110.01   Definitions
   110.02   License required
   110.03   Application
   110.04   Fees
   110.05   Application requirements
   110.06   Prohibited actions
   110.07   Solicitor to carry and present credentials
   110.08   License duration, transferability and revocation
   110.09   Veterans
   110.10   Restrictions on licensee/house-to-house solicitation
   110.11   Exemptions
   110.12   Effect and scope
   110.13   No solicitation list
   110.14   Construction of clause headings
 
   110.99   Penalty
§ 110.01 DEFINITIONS.
   The following terms shall have meanings ascribed in this chapter.
   APPLICANT. Any solicitor or sponsor on whose behalf one or more individual solicitors pursue house-to-house activities.
   CORPORATE LIMITS. Include the Town Service District and the Rural Service District of the town.
   EXEMPT PERSONS. Include the following:
      (1)   An individual while and to the extent he or she is engaged in protected political speech or activity;
      (2)   An individual while and to the extent he or she is engaged in protected religious speech or activity;
      (3)   An individual engaged in the solicitation of funds and/or the sale of cookies, candies, paper products or similar sundries for and on behalf of a not-for-profit organization or association that is exempt from the Indiana Gross Retail Tax;
      (4)   An individual who, due to the applicable federal or state law, is exempt from local licensing requirements. These individuals shall follow the established hours, manner, and restrictions, in which house-to-house soliciting may be conducted within the city.
   HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SOLICITATIONS. Include all methods and means of soliciting funds and/or of selling commercial products, services or property within the corporate limits of the town ("town"), by and through the uninvited in-person solicitation of town residents on private property.
   VENDOR. A person, partnership, corporation, company, organization or entity who is not an exempt person and who is engaged in the selling, peddling, marketing for future sales, merchandising or brokering of products, services or property to the general public for a commercial purpose and/or who is engaged in the solicitation of funds.
   VENDOR SOLICITOR. Any individual licensed as a solicitor and employed by a vendor and shall include both commercial and non-commercial solicitors.
(Ord. 2023-15, passed 9-5-2023)
§ 110.02 LICENSE REQUIRED.
   It shall be unlawful for any vendor solicitor to engage in house-to-house solicitation in the corporate limits of the town ("town"), unless such vendor solicitor shall have first secured a license from the ZPD and issued pursuant to § 110.08 below. The requirement for a license is for each vendor solicitor employed by a vendor who will conduct business within the corporate limits of the town.
(Ord. 2023-15, passed 9-5-2023)
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