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(c) Whenever the City Attorney shall have reason to believe that any charitable organization, professional ~nd-raising counsel or professional solicitor is c~erating in violation of the provisions of this chapter or has knowingly and wilfully made any false statement in any registration application or statement, report or other infommation require~ by this chapter or that a charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel or professional solicitor has failed to file a registration statement req~]ired by this chapter, or t¥~t there is e~ployed or is about to he ~ployed in any solicitation or collection of c~ntri- butions for a charitable organization any devise, scheme, or artifice to defraud or to obtain money or property by means of any false pretense, representation or prcx~se, or that the officers or representatives of any charitable organization, professional fund-raising counsel or pro- fessional solicitor have refused or failed after notice to produce any records of such organization or that the funds raised by solicitation activities are not devoted or will not be devoted to the charitable purposes of the charitable organization in addition to all other actions autllorized by law, the City Attorney ~may bring an action in the name of this ~unicipality against such charitable organization and its officers, such professional fund-raising counsel or professional solicitor to enjoin such charitable organization or professional funud-ralsing counsel or professional solicitor frc~ continu/ng such violation, solicitation or collection, or engaging therein, or doing any acts in furtherance thereof and for such other relief as the court dee~s appropriate. Section 25-42. Exemptions. (a) q!ae following persons shall be ek~mp~ fr~m the registra- tion requirements of Section 25-32 and the requirements of Section 25-35 but shall otherwise be subject bo the provisions ef this chapter: (1) Educational institutions that are recognized by the Superintendent of Public Instruction or that are accredited by a regional accrediting association or by an organization affiliated with the National Commission on Accrediting, any foundation having an established identity with any of the aforementioned educational institutions, and any other educational institution confining its solicitation of contri- butions to its student body, alumni, faculty and trustees, end their families. (2) Persons requesting contributions for the relief of any individual specified ~ name at the time of the solicitation %~nen all of the contributions collected without any deductions whatsoever are turned over to the named beneficiary for his use. (3) Charitable organizations which do not intend to solicit and receive, during a calendar year, and have not actually raised or received, durLng any of the three next preceding calendar years, contributions frc~ the public in excess of t~ thousand dollars or which do not receive contributions frcm more than ten persons durJ_ng 11