HomeMy WebLinkAbout1188
ORDINANCE NO. 1188
AN ORDINANCE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY
OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE
ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING THERETO
NEW SECTIONS 6425.7, 6425.8 AND 6425.9,
DECLARING THE LEGISLATIVE POLICY OF THE
PEOPLE OF SAID CITY, PROHIBITING THE
SOLICITING OF ORDERS, PEDDLING, HAWKING,
VENDING AND SALE OF SERVICES, GOODS,
WARES AND MERCHANDISE FROM DOOR TO DOOR
IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA WITHOUT THE
INVITATION, CONSENT OR REQUEST OF THE
HOMEOWNERS OR TENANTS IN POSSESSION, AND'
EXEMPTING THEREFROM CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES.
THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby
amended by adding thereto new Sections 6425.7, 6425.8 and 6425.9,
the same to read respectively as follows:
6425.7. LEGISLATIVE POLICY. That the practice of going
in and upon private residences in the City of Arcadia, California,
by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants, salesmen
and transient vendors of merchandise, not having been requested or
, invited so to do by the owner or owners thereof, by the .occupant or
occupants of said private residence, or by the person or persons in
lawful possession thereof, for the purpose of soliciting orders for
the sale of services, goods, wares and merchandise, or vending, ped-
dling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance, and
punishable as such nuisance as a misdemeanor.
6425.8. PROHIBITED ACTIVITES. No solicitor, peddler,
hawker, itinerant merchant, transient vendor of merchandise, sales-
man or other person shall go in or upon any private residence in the
City for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of services,
goods, wares or merchandise, 'or vending, peddling or hawking the same,
unless such person shall have first been requested or invited so to
do by the owner, occupant or person in lawful possession of such
private residence.
6425.9. SAME. EXCEPTION. The provisions of Sections
6425.7 and 6425.8 shall not apply to the activities of any Charity,
as defined by Section 6611.2, conducted in compliance with Chapter 6
of this Article.
-1-
1188
SECTION 2. The City Manager, The Chief of Police and
officers of the Police Department of the City of Arcadia are her~by
required and directed to suppress the same, and to abate any such
nuisance as is described in Section 1 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. Any person perpetrating a nuisance as descri-
bed in Section 1 of this Ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable by a
fine of not more than Five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by impri-
sonment in the City Jail of the said City of Arcadia or in the County
Jail of the County of Los Angeles, State of California, for a period
not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 4. The within ordinance shall not become effect-
ive until it 1s favorably voted upon at a special City election
called for such purpose; if a majority of the voters voting on this
Ordinance vote in its favor, this Ordinance shall go into effect 10
days after the date that the vote is declared by the legislative
body of the City of Arcadia.
SECTION 5. This ordinance may be amended or repealed by a
vote of the people or by the affirmative vote of four members of the
Arcadia City Council.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from
the passage thereof shall cause the same to be published once in the
Arcadia Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation, published and
circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty (30) days from and
after the final passage thereof, said Ordinance shall take effect
and be in force.
-2-
1188
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Co~ncil of the City of Arcadia,
held on the 4th
day of September , 1962, by the affirmative
vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Phillips, Reibold, and But~erworth
NOES: Councilman Turner
ABSENT: Councilman Balser
~~~~
City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 4th day of september J 1962.
~ jP~~LL-
ayor 0 he C'i 0 rcad a
ATTEST:
-- .- -"\ .:-:;...., ,
.\ ~~'"
-- \, .... -/
~ .'~ _ "r..;.,J~'
,': ,'..~ ~'<
!~~/~({0(J
Clerk,
--" .
~.. --{ ..-.);;-"
~. / ....
- "
,4-
City
(SEAL)
-
'" ,~4
, ~
-3-
1188