Legal Documents of Maryville

No person while conducting the business or activity of peddler, street barker, solicitor, solicitor for charitable or religious purposes, or transient vendor shall:

1. Be permitted to set up and operate a booth or stand on any street or sidewalk, or in any other public area within the city.
2. Stand or sit in or near the entrance to any dwelling or place of business, or in any other place which may disrupt or impede pedestrian or vehicular traffic.
3. Offer to sell goods or services or solicit in vehicular traffic lanes, or operate a "road block" of any kind.
4. Call attention to his or her business or merchandise or to his or her solicitation efforts by crying out, by blowing a horn, by ringing a bell, or creating other noise; except that the street barker shall be allowed to cry out to call attention to his business or merchandise during recognized parade or festival days of the city.
5. Enter, or attempt to enter, in or upon any residential or business premises wherein the authorized owner, occupant or person legally in charge of the premises has in a conspicuous place posted, at the entry to the premises or at the entry to the principal building of the premises, a sign or placard in letters at least one inch (1") high bearing the notice "Peddlers Prohibited," "Solicitors Prohibited," "Peddlers and Solicitors Prohibited," or similar language of the same import, is located.
6. Enter in, or upon, any residential premises without prior invitation of the authorized owner, occupant or person legally in charge of the premises between 7:00 P.M. and 8:00 A.M. (1999 Code, § 9-207)