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Sulphur Council moves to remove solicitation-registration requirement and tighten handbill rules
Summary
Council introduced and voted to amend city code to delete the solicitation-registration requirement and to prohibit placing handbills in or on vehicles on private property; the changes respond to complaints about aggressive door-to-door solicitations, especially affecting elderly residents, while retaining several exceptions.
The Sulphur City Council introduced and voted on ordinances to remove a solicitation-registration requirement from city code and to tighten rules on distribution and handbills.
City attorney Mister Lofton explained the revisions are intended to make the code consistent after deleting registration language and to address multiple complaints from elderly residents who reported aggressive solicitors. "We were…
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