Amending Various Sections of Chapter 4 Licenses

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(g) Purchases from minors prohibited$rbd�hevrs - No secondhand store dealer shall receive or purchase any property whatever from a minor under the age of twenty -one (21) years. (h) Exemptions. Any not - for - profit or charitable organization doing business as a not - for - profit corporation under the laws of Indiana shall be exempt from the licensing provisions of this Chapter. SEC. 4 -54 RESERVED SEC. 4 -55 Solicitations, Charitable (a) Legislative findin s of the Council 1. The Council does hereby find, determine and declare that: (a) Numerous persons and organizations have been and are soliciting funds in the City on the representation that such funds are to be used for charitable purposes, when in truth and in fact such funds are being used in large part for the private profit of unscrupulous individuals promoting such solicitation; (b)A variety of frauds and misleading devices are employed in such solicitations; (c) Persons engaged in the business of promoting solicitations fail to properly account for funds solicited; (d) Telephone solicitations by professional solicitors and professional promoters are a cause of annoyance to the individuals solicited and, in many cases, tactics used by such solicitors are coercive, abusive or misleading; (e) As a result of such pernicious activities honest, deserving and needed charities suffer; (f) Residents of the City have been and are in constant peril of being defrauded and imposed upon due to a lack of adequate regulation of charitable solicitations. 2. The Council believes that if the public were given full information concerning the solicitations, it could protect itself against victimization by disreputable fund raisers, and therefore it is necessary in the interest of the public welfare of the City for the Council to regulate solicitations for charitable purposes. (b) Definitions 1. As used in this Section: (a) Charitable means and includes the words patriotic, philanthropic, social service, welfare, benevolent, educational, civic, or fraternal, either actual or purported. (b) Commission means the Charitable Solicitations Commission of the City. (c) Contribution means andincludes the words alms, food, clothing, money, property, subscription or pledge, and also donations under the guise of loans of money or property. (d) Cost of Promotion means, in connection with a charitable solicitations, the reasonable cost of acquiring goods or merchandise or an entertainment event when such is used in connection with the solicitation but does not include the cost of selling the goods or admissions nor the cost of bona fide educational materials. No cost included in_the definition of Cost of Solicitation shall be considered a Cost of Promotion. -35-