[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Rothschild 11-13-1967 as Sec. 11.14 of the 1967 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No person, firm or corporation, by its employees or otherwise,
shall distribute or circulate or permit or cause the distribution
or circulation of any newspapers, handbills, dodgers, posters, booklets,
circulars, cards, pamphlets, novelties or other printed or advertising
matter in the Village of Rothschild without the person distributing
the same having a distributor's license as hereinafter provided.
[Amended 5-12-2008]
Application in writing for a distributor's license shall
be made to the Clerk upon forms prescribed by the Clerk. The Clerk
shall have the authority to grant such license upon payment to the
Treasurer of a license fee set by the Village Board. Said license
shall expire on the 30th day of June of each year and be subject to
inspection upon demand by any Village official or property owner.
No person under 14 years of age shall be granted a license.
A.
No printed material or other matter described in § 335-1 hereof shall be distributed or scattered on any street, alley, sidewalk or other public place nor in any motor vehicle upon the streets of the Village.
B.
All such printed matter distributed to private homes shall be securely
affixed to the building or deposited in containers or holders when
the same are available.
C.
None of such printed matter shall be left at any vacant residence
or in any hallway or vestibule of any apartment house, hotel or office
building except where a holder or receptacle is provided.
D.
No distribution shall be made at such premises where a "No Handbills"
card is posted.
E.
No person engaged in making distribution aforesaid shall cross any
lawn or over or through any hedge or shrubbery or ring the doorbell,
sound the knocker, or otherwise call the residents to the door for
the purpose of receiving the matter being distributed.
The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to apply
to the distribution of newspapers or magazines being delivered to
bona fide subscribers thereof, packages containing ordered material,
official public notices issued by proper public authorities, monthly
statements of public utilities addressed to a specific address or
person, or anything carried or delivered by the U.S. Postal Service,
nor shall a license be required for the distribution of any political
or campaign literature or matter, and no person shall distribute or
cause to be distributed any such literature within a radius of 1/4
mile from the door of any polling booth within the Village of Rothschild
which is intended to or tends to influence any voting during the hours
of voting.
A.
A distributor's license shall be subject to revocation by the
Village upon conviction for violation of any provision of this chapter,
or conviction of any other ordinance of the Village or state statute
substantially related to the licensed activity.
[Amended 8-28-2017]
B.
The Clerk shall not grant a distributor's license to any person
whose license shall have been revoked in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter within a period of six months from the date of such
revocation or suspension.
[Amended 6-25-2012; 8-28-2017]
[Amended 6-25-2012; 8-28-2017]
Any person violating this chapter shall be subject to § 1-2 of this Code.
