§ 28-188. Soliciting upon private residence.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for a solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant, and transient vendor of merchandise or of a magazine or other periodical subscription, not having been invited or requested to do so by the owner, to go in or upon a private residence for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, subscriptions to magazines or other periodicals.

(b)

Subsection (a) of this section shall not apply to the sale or soliciting of orders for the sale of milk, dairy products, vegetables, poultry, eggs, and other farm and garden produce, to the extent that the sale of such commodities is authorized by law.

(c)

Any person violating this section, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $100.00, imprisoned for not more than 30 days, or both.

(Code 2004, § 14.71; Ord. of 7-1958)