5.20.220 Solicitors.
A. Definitions.
1. A “master solicitor” is a person or firm which employs or uses agents or employees to act as solicitors.
2. A “solicitor” is:
a. Any person who sells, offers for or exposes for sale or who trades, deals or traffics in any services, magazines, periodicals or any other personal property at retail in the city, by going from house to house or from place to place or by indiscriminately approaching individuals, including street vendors, sales by sample or for future delivery and executory contracts of sales are embraced within this subdivision; provided, however, that this subsection shall not be deemed applicable to any salesman or canvasser who solicits trade from wholesale or any salesman or canvasser who solicits trade from wholesale or retail dealers in the city;
b. Any person who, while selling or offering for sale any goods, wares, merchandise or anything of value, stands or is otherwise present in a doorway, any unenclosed vacant lot, parcel of land, any street or public way or in any other place not used by such person as a permanent place of business.
B. License Application – Qualifications – Requirements to Apply.
1. Licenses – Applicant Investigation – Process Expedition. If any applicant for a license, including a solicitor or their employer, is unwilling to wait for an investigation by the chief of police through the regular procedures, and desires that the chief of police expedite such investigation by the use of toll telephone calls or telegrams, then, in that event, the chief of police shall make the necessary toll telephone calls and send such telegrams as the investigation shall require, but only after the costs of such services have been paid by the applicant.
2. Temporary Use Permit. Any licensed solicitor shall also conform to the requirements of ACC 18.46A.060, Temporary Use Permits – Coordination with Other City Codes.
3. Exemptions. This chapter shall not apply to the selling of personal property at wholesale to dealers in such articles or commodities, shall not apply to newsboys, and shall not apply to any organization, association or corporation desiring to solicit, or have solicited in its name, donations of money or property or financial assistance of any kind or desiring to sell or distribute any item of literature or merchandise for a charitable, religious, patriotic or philanthropic purpose. For procedure to declare exemption see ACC 5.20.030(E)(1) and (2).
C. License Regulations – Order Requirements. All orders taken by licensed solicitors shall be in writing, in duplicate, stating the name of the solicitor, as it appears on the license, the solicitor’s permit number as issued under this chapter, the address of both the solicitor and their employer, the terms of the order of agreement, and the amount of money or checks paid to the solicitor. One copy of such order or agreement shall be given to the purchaser. (Ord. 4012 § 2, 1984.)