Charitable organization.
As used herein shall mean a group which is or holds itself out to be benevolent, educational,
voluntary help, philanthropic, humane, patriotic, religious or eleemosynary organization,
or any person who solicits or obtains contributions solicited from the public for
charitable purposes. "Charitable organization" shall not be deemed to include a duly
constituted religious organization or any group affiliated with and forming an integral
part of that organization.
Person
means any individual, organization, trust, foundation, group, association, entity,
partnership, corporation, society, or any combination of them.
Solicitors
or
peddlers
shall include any person requesting, directly or indirectly, money, property, financial
assistance, or any other thing of value on the plea or representation that such money,
property, financial assistance, or other thing of value or a portion of it will be
used for a charitable purpose or will benefit a charitable organization. "Solicitors"
or "peddlers" shall include any person, whether resident of the city or not, travelling
either by foot, wagon, automotive vehicle, or any other type of conveyance from place
to place, or from street to street, carrying, conveying or transporting goods, wares,
merchandise, and personal property of any nature, offering and exposing the same for
sale, or taking or attempting to take orders for sales or making sales and delivering
articles to purchasers, or who, without travelling from place to place, shall sell
or offer the same for sale from a wagon, automotive vehicle, or other vehicle or conveyance
or from any public place, and further provided that one who solicits orders or attempts
to solicit orders and as a separate transaction makes deliveries or promises to make
deliveries to purchasers in the future as part of a scheme or design to evade the
provisions of this chapter is deemed to be a "solicitor" or "peddler." "Solicitors"
or "peddlers" shall include the words "hawkers," "hucksters," "canvassers," "itinerant
merchant," "itinerant vendors" and "solicitors for donations." "Solicitors" or "peddlers"
shall not include newspaper vendors.
