Adelanto Municipal Code Ch. 9.55 Distribution of Notices and Handbills

For the purpose of this Chapter the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given herein. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number and words used in the singular number include the plural number. The word “shall” is always mandatory and not merely directory.

A. “Aircraft” is any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designated for navigation or for flight in the air. The word “aircraft” includes helicopters and lighter than air dirigibles and balloons.

B. “Handbill” is any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature.

C. “Newspaper” is any newspaper of general circulation as defined by the laws of the state and any other publication whether or not designated a newspaper and which is regularly issued and printed and containing in each issue local and other news of a general nature and having advertising space in each issue thereof open to purchase by the general public for the publication of general advertising matter therein, or any other periodical or current magazine regularly published and sold to the public with not less than four (4) issues per year.

D. “Person” is any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.

E. “Private Premises” is any dwelling, house, building or other structure designed or used whether wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or vacant, and includes any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging to or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building or other structure, and any business or professional establishment.

F. “Public Place” is any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.

G. “City” is the City of Adelanto.

H. “Vehicle” is every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, including devices used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks.

No person shall throw, cast, distribute or deposit any handbill in or upon any public place. Any person may hand out or distribute any handbill without charge to any person willing to accept it.

No person shall throw, cast, distribute or deposit any handbill in or upon any vehicle provided, however, it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute a handbill without charge to any occupant of a vehicle willing to accept it.

No person shall throw, cast, distribute or deposit any handbill upon any private premises, if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words “No Trespassing,” “No Peddlers or Agents,” “No Advertisement” or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants of the premises do not desire to have any such handbills left upon the premises. The provisions of this Section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the Unites States, or to newspapers, as defined herein in Section 9.55.010.C.

No person in an aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit within the City while aloft any litter, including, without limitation, any handbill or other object.

No person shall post or affix any notice, poster or other paper or device, to any lamppost, public utility pole or shade tree in the public right of way or on public property, or upon any public structure or building, except as may be authorized or required by law.