Del Rey Oaks Municipal Code Ch. 5.12 Peddlers and Solicitors

Private residential premises, for the purpose of this chapter, is defined as follows:

Any premises in the city whereupon any person, or persons are residing or living, including private residences, hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses, apartments, flats, bungalows, or motor courts, or multiple residential dwellings.

Solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants, and itinerant vendors of merchandise and each of such terms are defined for the purpose of this chapter as follows:

Solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants and transient vendors of merchandise not having a fixed place of business within the city limits of the city.

(Prior code §§ 4-203, 4-204)

It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly, to enter upon any private residential premises in the city for any of the purposes set forth in Section 5.12.030 without first obtaining from the police department of the city, a permit in writing so to do, and the police department may deem necessary or desirable in the public interest, and the police department may require any such applicant to submit fingerprints of the applicant or of any person, desiring to solicit, peddle, hawk, deliver, sell or buy goods, wares and merchandise in or upon any such private residential premises in the city.

(Prior code § 4-202)

The entry in or upon private residential property or premises in the city by solicitors, peddlers, hawkers, itinerant merchants or transient vendors of merchandise without invitation or authorization of the occupant, or the occupants of such residential premises so to do for the purpose of soliciting order for goods, wares and merchandise or disposing of or peddling or hawking the same is declared to be and constitutes a public nuisance and a misdemeanor, punishable as hereinafter set forth.

(Prior code § 4-201)