§ 30-103. Purposes.

To protect the residents of the city against the nuisance of the promiscuous distribution of handbills and circulars, with the resulting detriment and danger to public health and safety, the public interest, convenience and necessity require the regulation thereof, and to that end the purposes of this chapter are specifically declared to be as follows:

(1)

To protect local residents against trespassing by solicitors, canvassers or handbill distributors upon the private property of such residents if they have given reasonable notice that they do not wish to be solicited by such persons or do not desire to receive handbills or advertising matter;

(2)

To protect the people against the health and safety menace and the expense incident to the littering of streets and public places by the promiscuous and uncontrolled distribution of advertising matter and handbills; and

(3)

To preserve to the people their constitutional right to receive and disseminate information not restricted under ordinary rules of decency, good morals and public order, by distinguishing between the nuisance created by the promiscuous distribution of advertising and handbills and the right to deliver handbills to persons who are willing to receive the same.

(Code 1989,§ 606.01)