17-76 ORDINANCE NO. 17-76
AN ORDINANCE OF Tim CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AMENDING ARTICLE II,
CHAPTER 18, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE
CITY OF DELRAY BEACH BY AMENDING SECTION 18-21
BY LETTERING THE FIRST PARAGRAPH (a), ADDING
ADDITIONAL WORDING AND BY THE ADDITION OF A
NEW PARAGRAPH (b); AMENDING SECTION 18-22 AND
SECTION 18-26 BY REMOVING ALL PEFERENCES IN
SAID ORDINANCE TO TAX COLLECTOR AND INSERTING
IN PLACE .THEREOF THE WORDS "BUILDING DEPARTMENT";
REPEALING SECTION 18-25 OF SAID ORDINANCE;
PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING AN
EFFECTIVE DATE.
NOW, TIiEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
-OF DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA, AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section ].8-21 shall be amended to read as follows:
(a) .It shall be unlawful for any person in his own
name or on behalf of another person, company
or organization to solicit funds or contributions
for a charity or purported charity or to solicit
a sale of merchandise or service when such
solicitation of a sale is to a place of residence as
opposed to a place of business by use of the telephone
without having first obtained a telephone solicitor's
license as required by this chapter and Chapter 16
of this Code.
(b) Any person,company or organization engaging in
charitable or purported charitable telephone
solicitation shall also comply with the provisions
of Article III, Chapter 18 entitled "Charitable
Solicitations."
SECTION 2. That Section 18-22 shall be amended to read as follows
Applicants for telephone solicitation license
shall file with the ~a~-e~ee~ Building
.Department an application upon forms prescribed
and furnished by the ~a~-es~ee~ Building
Department, approved by the city council on
June 8th, 1964.*
SECTION 3. That Section 18-25 of said Article ii, Chapter 18
of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Delray Beach is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. That Section 18-26 shall be amended to read as follows
(a) Maintained by ~a~-e.e~eeee~ Building Department;
furnished to licensee. The ea~-ee~eees~ Building
DeDartment shall maintain a list of persons who do not
wish to receive telephone solicitation messages. Person~
desiring to have their names placed on such list must
come to the office of the %aM-ee~ee%8~ B~ilding
Department and sign a register maintained by the
e~-es~eeee~ Building Department for such purpose.
A current copy of such list shall be furnished each
licensee at the time his telephone solicitor's
license is issued and the e~-es~ee~e~ Buildin~
DeDartment, as names are added to such list or
rem. oved therefrom, shall notify all licensed
telephone solicitors, by mail, of such new names
added to the list or names removed therefrom.
SECTION 5. That should any section or provision of this ordinance
or any portion thereof, any paragraph, sentence or word be declared by a
court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not
affect the validi'ty of the remainder hereof asa whole or part thereof
other than the part declared to be invalid..
SECTION 6. That this ordinance shall become effective upon
second and final reading.
PASSED AND ADOPTED in regular session on second and final reading
on this the 14th day of June , 1976.
ATTEST:
~ity Clerk
First Reading May 10. 1976
Second Reading June .1.4, 1976
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