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Council updates solicitation ordinance to focus on commercial speech; ordinance adopted 7-0
Summary
Council adopted a rewrite of the city's solicitation code (Ordinance 2025-13) to narrow regulation to commercial solicitation and reduce discretion in permitting language to improve constitutional defensibility.
The City of West Melbourne on June 17 adopted Ordinance 2025-13, a revision of the city's solicitation code, updating definitions, permitting procedures and time-of-day restrictions. City Attorney Mister Carey presented the changes as an attempt to streamline the code and reduce legal vulnerability by limiting regulation to commercial speech and removing provisions that regulated charitable or political…
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