§ 15½-1. Definitions.

a.

For the purposes of this chapter, the term "solicitor" or "canvasser" means any person who attempts to solicit orders for the sale of goods, wares or merchandise, whether the sale is consummated in the city or to be consummated when approved by some other person elsewhere, or who bargains to sell any goods, wares or merchandise for cash or otherwise, by sample or by any other manner, personal property of any nature whatsoever, or for services to be furnished or performed, for present or future delivery, traveling by foot, wagon, automobile, motor truck, or any type of conveyance, from place to place, from house to house, or from street to street, including any person collecting or soliciting contributions or donations, cash or otherwise, to any charitable, non-profit or other eleemosynary organization; provided that the provisions of this chapter should not be applicable to any person who enters the residence or business of any resident of the city at the express prior request or invitation of such resident.

b.

For purposes of this chapter, the term "right-of-way canvasser or solicitor" shall mean any person who sells or offers for sale any thing or service of any kind, or who seeks any donation of any kind, or who personally hands to or seeks to transmit by hand or receive by hand any thing or service of any kind, whether or not payment in exchange is required or requested, to any person who operates or occupies a motor vehicle of any kind, which vehicle is in travel on or within any portion of any of the streets or roadways in the city, whether or not such vehicle is temporarily stopped in the travel lanes of the road. The term shall not apply to any person who merely holds or displays a sign lawfully permitted to be displayed by a person as long as there is no entry by such person or sign into any portion of the roadway or its median. Further, this term shall not apply to official citations or notices provided pursuant to governmental authority.

(Ord. No. 94-101, § 2, 4-19-94; Ord. No. 2013-127, § 2, 12-18-13)