§ 11-9. Begging or soliciting alms.

(a)

No person shall beg or solicit alms in or on the streets or other public places of the town or in the entrances or corridors to or of any public building in the town without a permit issued to him therefor by the chief of police.

(b)

No person shall sell or offer for sale any pencils, shoestrings, chewing gum or similar objects in or on the streets or other public places of the town as an indirect method of soliciting alms; nor shall any person offer a cup or other receptacle for the deposit of money or take up any collection in connection with the playing of any musical instrument in or on the streets or other public places of the town without having a permit therefor issued by the chief of police.

(Code 1967, § 16-4)

State law reference

Authority to regulate begging, G.S. § 160A-179.