ORD 195 ORDINANCE NO. 195
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES REVISING REGULATIONS FOR SOLICITATION
AND AMENDING THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNCIPAL
CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS
SECTION 1: Chapter 5.08 of Title 5 of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code is
amended by adding Section 5.08.40 to read:
5.08.40. Sections 607 to 610 of Article 12 of Chapter II and Chapter XVIII
Repealed. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 5.08.101 , Sections 607, 608, 609
and 610 of Article 12 of Chapter II and Chapter XVIII of the License Ordinance are
hereby repealed.
SECTION 2: Title 5 of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code is amended by
adding Chapter 5.20, entitled Solicitation, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 5.20 SOLICITATION
SECTION 5.20.010. Definitions.
A. "Solicit" and "solicitation" mean the request, directly or indirectly, of
money, credit, property, financial assistance, patronage or other things of value,
hawking, peddling, or vending for charitable (as defined in this section) or commer-
cial purposes or otherwise, or the dissemination of information or ideas, conducted
door to door, in any place of public accommodation, in any place of business open to
the public generally, on the city streets and sidewalks, in the public parks, on the
public beaches, or in any public places. These words also mean and include the fol-
lowing methods of disseminating information, securing such money, patronage, credit,
property, financial assistance or other thing of value, when conducted in the fol-
lowing manner:
1. Any oral or written request;
2. The distribution, circulation, posting or publishing of any handbill,
written advertisement or other publication, unless such handbill or written
s advertisement has been placed within a business open to the public generally with
the express permission of the owner or lessee of such business;
3. The sale of or taking orders for any goods, services, merchandise, wares
or other tangible items.
A solicitation, as defined in this subsection, shall be deemed completed
when made, whether or not the person making the same receives any contribution or
makes any sale referred to in this subsection.
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B. "Charitable" means and includes the words patriotic, philanthropic, social
services, welfare, benevolent, educational, religious, civic or fraternal, either
actual or purported.
C. "City" means the City of Rancho Palos Verdes.
D. "Contributions" means and includes the words alms, food, clothing, money,
property, subscription or pledge, and also donations under the guise of loans of
money or property.
E. "Finance Director" means that person whose duties and responsibilities are
described in Chapter 2.32 of this Code or any other City officer charged with the
administration of this Chapter.
F. "Person" shall means any individual, firm, business, co-partnership, cor-
poration, company, association, joint stock association, church, religious sect,
religious demonination, society, organization, or league and shall include any
trustee, receiver, assignee, agent, solicitor, or other similar representative
thereof.
SECTION 5.20.020. Manner of Solicitation.
A. No person shall solicit at any dwelling, including but not limited to a
house, apartment, or condominium where there is a sign indicating "No Solicitations",
"Do Not Disturb", or any other indication that the occupants do not wish to be soli-
cited or in any other way have their privacy disturbed;
B. No person shall touch, come into physical contact with, or affix any object
to the person of any member of the public, without first receiving express permission
therefor from such member of the public;
C. No person shall persistently and importunately solicit any member of the
public after such member of the public expresses his or her desire not to be soli-
cited;
D. No person shall intentionally and deliberately obstruct the free movement 'of
any person on any street, sidewalk or other place or in any place open to the public
generally;
E. No person shall solicit from a captive audience. "Captive Audience" shall be
defined a purposefully stationary persons, such as persons in lines or seated in
public areas;
F. No person shall threaten any injury or damage to any member of the public who
declines to be solicited;
G. No person shall accept food stamps as a contribution, and;
H. No person shall misrepresent his or her physical or mental health while soli-
citing.
SECTION 5.20.030. Time of Solicitation. It shall be unlawful for any person to
go upon private residential premises after 9:00 P.M. or earlier than 8:00 A.M. for
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the purpose of solicitation, unless such person has been requested or invited to do
so by the owner or occupant of said premises. This section shal not be interpreted
to grant any person permission to enter upon private property.
SECTION 3. Severability. It is the intention of the City Council that each
separate provision of this Chapter shall be deemed independent of all other provi-
sions herein, and it is further the intention of the City Council that if any provi-
sion of this Chapter is declared invalid, other provisions thereof shall remain valid
and enforceable.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED on November 19, 1985 by the following roll call
vote:
AYES: HINCHLIFFE, BACHARACH, RYAN, HUGHES & MAYOR McTAGGART
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
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ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
ST OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
I, JO PURCELL, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the
foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 195, passed first reading on November 6,
1985, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular
meeting thereof held on November 19, 1985, and that the same was passed and adopted
by the following roll call vote:
AYES: HINCHLIFFE, BACHARACH, RYAN, HUGHES & MAYOR McTAGGART
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
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703CP/ORD1.1-3 3 Ordinance No. 195
Mayor DOUGLAS M. HINCHLIFFE
L RANCHO PALOS VERDES
Mayor Pro Tern MELVIN W. HUGHES
Councilwoman JACKI BACHARACH
Councilman JOHN C. McTAGGART
Councilman ROBERT E. RYAN
City Manager DONALD F. GULUZZY
REGULATIONS FOR SOLICITATION
WITHIN THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES
A license is not required for solicitation by the City of Rancho Palos
Verdes; however, the following guidelines must be adhered to at all
times:
1. No person shall solicit after 9: 00 P.M. or earlier than 8:00 A.M.
unless invited to do so by the owner or occupant of said premi-
ses.
2 . No solicitation may occur where a sign indicating "No Solicita-
tion" , "Do Not Disturb" or any other indication that the occu-
pants do not want to be solicited appears.
3 . Permission, must be granted before any solicitor shall touch,
come into physical contact with, or affix any object on any per-
son.
4 . No soliciting may take place once a person expresses his/her
desire not to be solicited.
5. No solicitor may obstruct the free movement of any person on any
street, sidewalk or any other place.
6. No person shall solicit from a captive audience. Examples of
captive audiences are persons in lines or seated in public areas.
7. No person shall threaten any injury or damage to any member of
the public who declines to be solicited.
8. No person shall accept food stamps as a contribution.
9. No person, while soliciting, shall misrepresent his/her physical
and/or mental health.
10 . In the event any or all of these regulations are violated, resi-
dents are directed to call the Lomita Station Sheriff ' s Depart-
ment at 539-1661.
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