El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 5.84 Tip Sheet Sales

A. Every person engaged in the business or practice of disseminating, distributing, handing out, selling, offering for sale, or soliciting for the sale of any sheet, dodger, handbills, circulator letter, booklet, or any other written material of any kind pertaining to any horse race, choice of a horse or horses, recommending any horse or horses or giving or conveying any purported information about any horse or race or contest of endurance or speed between horses, whether at a fixed place of business within the city or otherwise shall pay a license tax of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) for each fiscal year or portion thereof. Such license shall entitle the licensee to disseminate such aforesaid materials through not more than two (2) persons during any one day, provided however, that no person shall be entitled to act for or on behalf of any such licensee until such licensee has filed with the Chief of Police the name, address, fingerprints and photograph of the person(s) so authorized by such licensee to act; and provided further that the license issued under this Section shall permit the dissemination of the aforesaid materials in not more than two (2) types of format and under not more than two (2) trade names throughout the entire period of such license period.

B. Exception. The provisions of subsection A of this Section shall not prohibit, or require a license or payment of a fee for the sale, distribution or delivery of newspapers of general circulation as defined by Section 6000 of the California Government Code, nor shall said Section apply within any racing enclosure duly licensed by the state to conduct horse racing under and in accordance with the laws of said state relating to such matter; nor to sales of such materials or items made by a merchant duly licensed by the city, provided such sales are made only inside a building in which his or her licensed business is conducted.

(Prior code §§ 6205.1, 6205.2)

No person shall, in doing any act for which a license has been issued under Section 5.84.010A, interfere with or cause interference with the normal flow of traffic upon the city streets. For the purpose of preventing congestion of traffic upon the public street of the city, the location occupied by each person in the conduct of any business licensed under Section 5.84.010A, whether such location be on public or on private property, shall be subject to the approval of the Permit Committee. No person shall disseminate, distribute, pass out, give away, hand out, sell, offer for sale, or solicit the sale of any of said material on or from that portion of any street in the city customarily traveled by motor vehicles, or in violation of any other provision of this code.

(Prior code § 6307)

No person shall sell, solicit for the sale of, or offer to sell any materials described in Section 5.84.010A and for which a license is thereby required, on any day unless a true copy of such material has been filed in the office of the Chief of Police at or before eleven a.m. of said day. No person shall disseminate, distribute, pass out, give away, hand out, sell, offer for sale, or solicit for the sale of any such material after three p.m. on any day or before nine a.m. on any day.

(Prior code § 6308)