[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Lexington as §§ 15-34, 15-35 and 15-39 of the 1958 Code (§§ 15-48, 15-49 and 15-55 of the 1970 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Handbills and advertising materials — See Ch. 212.
Licenses — See Ch. 255.
Noise — See Ch. 275.
Peace and good order — See Ch. 295.
Sales — See Ch. 336.
A. 
The practice of going in and upon private residences in the City by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or invited to do so by the owners or occupants of the private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise or disposing of or peddling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance and unlawful.
B. 
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the sale or soliciting of orders for the sale of milk, dairy products, vegetables, poultry and eggs, and other farm and garden produce so far as the sale of the commodities named herein is now authorized by law.
[Amended 12-5-1985]
Except as provided in § 12-27,[1] it shall be unlawful for any person, upon the streets, public alleys and public places within the fire district of the City, as described in § 5-5,[2] to solicit the sale of, offer for sale or barter any goods, wares or merchandise of any nature or description whatsoever. This section shall not apply to the sale or offer for sale or barter of any goods, wares or merchandise within the business houses of the City.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former Ch. 12 was repealed and recreated in part by Ord. No. 96-10. See now Ch. 255, Licenses, Art. II.
[2]
Editor's Note: Former Ch. 5 was repealed and recreated by Ord. No. 05-3. See now Ch. 134, Building Construction and Maintenance.
[Amended 5-16-1963; 3-20-1975]
No person shall solicit contributions, gifts or subscriptions from any person within the jurisdiction of the City for charitable purposes without a written permit from the City Manager. The applicant for a permit under this section shall establish to the satisfaction of the City Manager that such applicant in fact is a charitable organization and the solicitation to be conducted is for charitable purposes, that donations received by the applicant are deductible by the donor for income tax purposes and that the applicant has a locally based (geographical boundaries of the county) headquarters, office, board, agency or organization and that solicitations will be made by local persons or under the direction of the local office.