A. 
It is unlawful for any person to solicit by harassing or menacing another person on a public street or sidewalk or in another place open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned, including, but not limited to, banks, cash checking businesses, automated teller machines, public transportation facilities, in locations which impede traffic.
B. 
For purposes of this chapter:
1. 
"Aggressive" means and includes, but is not limited to, approaching or following pedestrians, repetitive soliciting despite refusals, the use of abusive or profane language to cause fear and intimidation, unwanted physical contact, the intentional blocking of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the touching or causing physical contact with a solicited person without that person's consent or threatening to make such contact, the intentional blocking of the entrance to any building or vehicle, the following behind, ahead, or alongside a person who walks away from a solicitor after being solicited with the intent to intimidate or continue solicitation, the approaching of a solicited person in a manner that is intended to or likely to cause a reasonable person to fear imminent bodily harm or the commission of a criminal act upon property in the person's possession or is intended to or likely to intimidate a reasonable person into responding affirmatively to the solicitation; or the soliciting of a person while the solicitor is under the influence of alcohol or drugs in a manner which disrupts the peace. Aggressive includes, but is not limited to, by acting in a manner while committing an assault, by committing a battery, or in a manner which violates the provisions of this chapter.
2. 
"Solicit" means to ask another by word or gesture for money or for some other thing of value.
3. 
"Solicit by harassing or menacing" means to do any of the following while soliciting: (a) block or impede the passage of the solicitee intentionally; (b) touch the solicitee with the intent to intimidate or coerce; (c) follow the solicitee, going behind, ahead or alongside of him or her, with the intent to intimidate or coerce; (d) threaten the solicitee, by word or gesture, with physical harm; and/or (e) abuse the solicitee with words which are offensive and inherently likely to provoke an immediate violent reaction.
(Ord. 012-2016 § 3)
Any person, firm or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee, or otherwise failing to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of an infraction and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $100. This chapter may be enforced through the issuance of administrative citations, as provided by Chapter 1.16 of the code.
(Ord. 012-2016 § 3)