The city council desires to regulate peddling and solicitation within the city in a manner so as to ensure to the residents the maximum amount of privacy and security in their own homes that is permissible in light of court decisions mandating certain types and amounts of access to residential areas by peddlers and solicitors. It is, therefore, the intent of the city council in enacting this chapter to recognize the extensive single-family residential nature of the city and the city’s unique geography and topography, resulting in narrow unlit streets, while providing opportunity for peddlers and solicitors as mandated by law. This chapter should be interpreted so as to be in conformity with relevant state and federal court decisions, including but not limited to Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., v. Village of Stratton, 536 U.S. 150, 122 S. Ct. 2080, 153 L. Ed. 2d 205 (2002). [Code 2006 § 8-1-1. Ord. 94-07, 9-27-1994; Ord. 2003-06, 4-22-2003; Res. 2003-09, 4-22-2003; Ord. 2012-09 § 1, 11-27-2012; Res. 2012-26 Exh. A, 11-27-2012].