§ 8-102. Solicitors, etc., entering private residence without invitation.  


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  • It shall be unlawful for any solicitor, peddler, hawker, itinerant merchant or transient vendor of merchandise to go in and upon any private residence (residence meaning a structure in which people live and/or the lot upon which structure is located) in the municipality, not having been requested or invited to do so by the owner or occupant of such residence, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares and merchandise, and services, or for the purpose of disposing or peddling or hawking the same. Such practice is hereby declared to be a nuisance and punishable as a misdemeanor under section 1-8.

(Code 1979, § 10-4002; Ord. No. 1986-6, 10-28-86)

State law reference

Entry after being forbidden, R.S. 14:63.3.

Cross reference

Entry after being forbidden, § 8-53.