No person who is engaged in the activity of delivering on a regular,
recurrent or repetitive basis any materials, goods or services to the owner
or occupant of any residential property in the city, including readers of
gas, water, electric or other utility metering devices, letter carriers, route
deliverymen, mailmen or newspaper delivery persons, shall enter upon and walk
over or trample upon the lawn of said property, including the grass, sod,
flowers or shrubs thereon, or otherwise cross said lawn, except upon a sidewalk,
driveway, porch, step or other area designated as a pathway, after having
been forbidden to do so by the owner or occupant, the agent or servant of
either; provided, however, that where such person cannot otherwise deliver
such materials or goods and services except by walking upon the lawn as aforesaid,
then this section shall not apply.
Any person or entity violating the provisions of this chapter shall be, upon conviction thereof, punished as provided in Chapter
1, General Provisions, Article
I.