Putting tracts on Car Windows

[heron]

Good point

Sec. 13-2. (NC) Permit required.
No person shall for commercial purposes sell, or solicit orders for, goods and services by going from door to door or from place to place without prior appointments with the residents or occupants thereof, without first having obtained a permit therefor from the town manager or manager's designee. (Ord. No. 0-84-77, § 1, 11-12-84)

This is about asking for money.


Here's a case with Jehovah's Witnesses:


http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=319&invol=105​

 

[heron]

Canvassing rulings

http://emlawcenter.bna.com/pic2/em.nsf/id/BNAP-6PPSBF?OpenDocument

http://www.lawskills.com/case/ga/id/718/ (littering with publications)

http://www.law.com/regionals/ca/opinions/aug/40928.shtml (nonprofit funds)




"The Supreme Court has held that the first amendment prohibits cities from banning the distribution of handbills, leaflets, circulars, and papers in the streets or from house to house.

"Freedom to distribute information to every citizen wherever he desires to receive it is so clearly vital to the preservation of a free society that . . . it must be fully preserved."

Cities may, however, adopt reasonable restrictions regulating the time, place, or manner of expression. The restrictions are valid if they do not refer to the content of the speech, are narrowly tailored to serve a significant government interest, and leave open alternative methods of communication."


lawskills.com/case/ga/id/718/#note1