Compton Municipal Code § 9-5 Identification and Regulations

[Added by Ord. #1080, § 6498; Ord. #1137; Ord. #1732, § 5]

Every person entering in and upon residential property within the City, for the purpose of collecting or gathering anything of value; or for the purpose of soliciting, and/or for the purpose of soliciting orders for sale of services, goods, wares and merchandise, and/or for the purpose of disposing of the same shall display to the resident an identification card which shall be issued by the Police Department unless it appears, in the determination of the Council, that such issuance might be contrary to the peace, health or safety of the public. Such card shall conform to the size and type prescribed by the Tax and License Collector. No license to engage in any activity set forth in this section shall be issued by the License Department until the required identification card has been obtained.

Such identification card shall be issued for a period of one year or for the remaining effective period of a City business license held by such person, whichever is the shorter period.

Any person distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills in or upon private premises, as the terms "commercial handbill," "noncommercial handbill" and "private premises" are defined in Subsection 7-9.1 of this Code, under such circumstances as are authorized by Subsection 7-1.8 of this Code, shall wear upon his person, within view, an identification card issued in the same manner and for the same period and subject to all of the foregoing provisions.

[Added by Ord. #1080, § 6498.1; Ord. #1355; Ord. #1393; Ord. #1564, § 1; Ord. #1670, § 1; Ord. #1794, § 1; Ord. #1811, § 3; Ord. #1966, § 2]

Any person desiring to engage in any activity requiring an identification card shall make an application in person to the Police Department. Such application will be accepted only upon the payment of a fee in the amount of $75 and shall be made between the hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on any City business day.

An identification card and work permit are one in the same as it relates to employees of the card club. The card club employees must renew their work permits (identification cards) every two years from the date of its issuance. The renewal fees for work permits and identifications cards will be $25. All other identification cards will expire as is provided in the Compton Municipal Code. The renewal fee for identification that must be replaced due to being lost or misplaced will be $25.

[Ord. #1080, § 6489.2; Ord. #1355; Ord. #1393; Ord. #1564]

The provisions set forth in subsections 9-5.1 and 9-5.2 shall not apply to the following: persons distributing milk and other food products house-to-house where a license has been issued for an established route; all persons holding a valid vocational, occupational or professional license issued by the state provided such persons shall display evidence of such license to such residents; all persons who have not reached their sixteenth birthday; all persons entering in and upon residential property after first having been requested or invited so to do by the owner or occupant thereof; and all persons entering upon residential property for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction of a lawful obligation theretofor incurred by the occupant thereof.

[Added by Ord. #1080, § 6498.3; Ord. #1355; Ord. #1393; Ord. #1564]

It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable as set out in Section 1200 of this Code, for any peddler or any other person to maintain, exhibit, possess or otherwise display on a public street, alley-way, sidewalk or vacant lot, without the express written consent of the property owner, for the purpose of sale, or distribution to minors and adults devices, contrivances, instruments or paraphernalia for smoking or injecting marijuana, hashish, PCP, or any controlled substance, other than prescription drugs or devices to ingest or inject prescription drugs, including roach clips, and cigarette papers and rollers designed and used for smoking the foregoing.

[Added by Ord. #1677, §§ 1, 2; Amended by Ord. #1750, § 1; Ord. #1793, §§ 1, 2; Ord. #1810, §§ 2, 3]

a. The following fees shall be applicable to the furnishing of services relating to copies of records (except as elsewhere provided by statute):

b. Public records are available during office hours and every citizen has a right to purchase any public record except those records exempted from disclosure by Section 6254 and 6255 of the Government Code.

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Editor's Note: Former Subsection 9-5.6, Sales of Frozen Desserts From Vehicles During Darkness, previously codified herein and containing portions of Ordinance No. 1385, was deleted in its entirety by Ordinance No. 2243.