Alhambra Municipal Code Ch. 5.32 Street Begging

No person shall beg, ask, solicit or receive alms for his own benefit, or for the benefit of any other person, firm, association or corporation, in or upon any street, sidewalk or park, or in or upon any doorway, hallway, entrance to a building or lot in the city.

('86 Code, § 5.32.010) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

No person shall wear or carry any picture, placard or sign calling attention to any physical ailment of such person or other person, or calling attention to the necessity of such person or other person, to receive alms, gifts or aid in any manner upon any street, sidewalk or park within the city.

('86 Code, § 5.32.020) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

No person shall carry, have in his possession or under his control, any cup, receptacle or other article in which coins or gifts are customarily deposited, if such cup, receptacle or other article is so carried or placed that the public can drop or place coins or gifts in the same upon any street, sidewalk, or park within the city.

('86 Code, § 5.32.030) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

(A) Right to permit. The City Council here by reserves the right to grant a permit to any religious, charitable, veteran or eleemosynary organization.

(B) Poppy sales. Notwithstanding any exemp-tion or exception set forth elsewhere in ordinances of the city or the general laws of the state, it shall be unlawful for any person for his own benefit, or for the benefit of any other person, firm, association or corporation, whatsoever, in any public park or place, or on or along any street or sidewalk, or in any entrance way abutting thereon, or by going from house to house or from place to place, to peddle, to solicit the sale of, or to solicit or accept contributions for the gift of:

(1) Any fabricated poppy, or

(2) Any flag, rosette, button, sticker, ribbon, token, toy, trinket, souvenir, or any other article or thing which displays the national colors, or which purports to be sold by or to be sponsored by any real or purported organization of war veterans; or

(3) Any veteran's “badge” or “label,” as those terms are defined in Cal. Mil. & Vet. Code § 1800.

('86 Code, § 5.32.040) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 2675, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

It shall be unlawful for any person to go upon the traveled roadway of any public street or highway for the purpose of selling or distributing handbills, souvenirs, poppies, stickers or any other articles or things whatsoever, to the drivers or occupants of standing or passing vehicles, or for the purpose of wiping or washing windshields, or to perform or offer to perform any work or service upon vehicles which are in course of travel.

('86 Code, § 5.32.050) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

No person shall seek, beg, solicit customers, patronage, alms or donations for himself or on behalf of any other person, firm, association or corporation, or distribute any handbills or advertising matter upon the premises or grounds of any hotel, apartment house, bungalow court, office building or loft building without first having secured the written consent so to do from the owner, lessee, managing agent or person having charge of the operation thereof; provided, however, that all regularly printed and distributed newspapers, shopper and shopping news, shall be exempt from the terms of this section.

('86 Code, § 5.32.060) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ; Am. Ord. 2677, passed - - )

No person shall use the name of any department or officer of the city in the solicitation of funds for any private business or in the sale or offer for sale of advertising space or matter in any newspaper, magazine, book, periodical, pamphlet, or any publication of any kind or character, or state to any other person from whom funds are being solicited to whom such offer to sell or sale is made or to be made either orally, in writing, or in printed matter, that such solicitation of such advertising medium bears the endorsement or approval of any department or officer of the city.

('86 Code, § 5.32.070) (Ord. 2656, passed - - ) Penalty, see § 5.32.080

Any person who violates any provision of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in § 1.12.010 of this code..

('86 Code, § 5.32.080) (Ord. 2656, passed - - )