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721.031 BUSINESS REGULATION CODE 18B (d) Resident Prohibition by Notice. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Chapter, no peddler or solicitor, while peddling or soliciting, shall call upon, knock at the door or ring the door bell of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the City upon which there is posted at the entrance a notice which reads "No Peddlers or Solicitors Allowed", or words of similar import or any other notice, which clearly prohibits peddlers and/or solicitors on the premises, or which is at that time on the applicable Peddlers or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry established and maintained pursuant to the provisions of Section 721.031 of this chapter, unless such peddler or solicitor has previously been invited upon the premises by the owner, lessee or an adult occupant thereof. (Ord. 2007-72. Passed 2-5-08.) 721.031 DO NOT KNOCK REGISTRY. (a) The Director of Public Safety shall separately establish and maintain a Peddlers Do Not Knock Registry and a Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry. (b) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment or other dwelling in the City may require the City to place and maintain his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling on the Peddlers Do Not Knock Registry and/or the Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry by submitting a separate request for each registry on form(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, each of which shall contain the following information: (1) The name of the person completing the form(s); (2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be placed on the registry; (3) The date the form was completed; (4) A statement that No Peddlers or No Solicitors shall knock, ring the doorbell or otherwise call at this address, or words of similar import, on the applicable form; (5) The exceptions, if any, which the person completing the form(s) wishes to be made to the requirement that Peddlers and/or Solicitors not call at his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling; and (6) Such other information that verifies the identity of the person completing the form(s) as a lawful possessor and occupant as may be required by the Director of Public Safety. (c) Any person in lawful possession and occupancy of any residence, house, apartment, or other dwelling in the City may require the City to remove his or her residence, house, apartment or other dwelling from the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry by submitting a separate Notice of Removal from either or both said registries on form(s) supplied by the Director of Public Safety, each of which shall contain the following information: (1) The name of the person completing the form(s); (2) The complete address of the residence, house, apartment or other dwelling to be removed from each registry; (3) The date the form was completed; (4) A statement that the residence, home, apartment or other dwelling be removed from the Peddlers and/or Solicitors Do Not Knock Registry, or words of similar import, on the applicable form; and (5) Such other information that verifies the identity of the person completing the form(s) as a lawful possessor and occupant as may be required by the Director of Public Safety.