§ 50-4. Prohibition of solicitation of donations or employment and the distribution of printed materials in commercial parking areas and certain multi-family residential areas.

(a)

No person shall solicit donations, employment or business or distribute printed materials from a commercial parking area or from the common areas, service areas or parking and other areas of any multi-family structure, such as an apartment complex, duplex, or residential condominium, and where the owner or person in lawful possession of the commercial parking area or multi-family structure(s) has posted a sign on the premises giving notice of the prohibition.

(b)

The sign shall comply with each of the following requirements:

(1)

Be posted in a conspicuous place where it is easily viewable by persons entering upon, or standing in, the commercial parking area, or in the case of residential property, posted in a conspicuous place in at least one location upon the premises of a multi-family structure(s). Where necessary to be easily viewable due to the size or configuration of the area, more than one sign shall be posted.

(2)

Has a size of not less than 18 by 24 inches, and not exceeding a total area of six square feet.

(3)

Contains a notice with lettering not less than one inch in height in substantially the following form:

"IT IS PROHIBITED AND ILLEGAL TO ENGAGE IN THE SOLICITATION OF DONATIONS, EMPLOYMENT OR BUSINESS OR THE DISTRIBUTION OR PRINTED MATERIALS ANYWHERE IN THIS PRIVATE PARKING AREA AND THE SURROUNDING TWENTY-FIVE (25) FEET."

For duplexes, triplexes, apartment buildings and complexes, residential condominiums and other multi-family structures, the notice shall be in substantially the following form:

"IT IS PROHIBITED AND ILLEGAL TO ENGAGE IN THE SOLICITATION OF DONATIONS, EMPLOYMENT OR BUSINESS OR THE DISTRIBUTION OR PRINTED MATERIALS ANYWHERE IN OR UPON THIS PRIVATE PROPERTY AND THE SURROUNDING TWENTY-FIVE (25) FEET."

The notice may be written in English or in English and Spanish at the owner's discretion.

(c)

Where a sign (or signs) is posted in a commercial parking area and/or upon the premises of a multi-family structure(s), and upon complying with this section, there shall be a presumption the sign was posted by the owner and/or person in lawful possession.

(d)

An owner or person in lawful possession, who has posted such a sign in a commercial parking area(s) and/or upon the premises of a multi-family structure(s), shall send written notification of the prohibition to the village chief of police containing a map showing the legal boundaries of the subject property, and the commercial parking area or multi-family structure(s), and the name, address and telephone number of the owner or the owner's property manager.

(Ord. No. 2006-03, § 2, 2-9-2006)