El Monte Municipal Code Ch. 9.04 Offenses Against Public Peace and Decency

No person shall stand or sit upon or otherwise occupy a public street or highway center median for any purpose other than to do so temporarily as a pedestrian while making a lawful pedestrian crossing of a public street or highway from one side to the other side of the roadway in which the center median is located. For purposes of this section, the term "center median" means and refers to that portion or a public street or highway, which is marked or identified by painted line or painted area of which is raised from the roadway and which separates the vehicle traffic lanes of the roadway which move in opposite directions of travel.

(Prior code § 4235.1)

No person shall deposit, by means of urination or defecation, any human waste material in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view or upon the surface of the ground or upon any premises, lot or in any building, basement or in any public street, or into any standing water, stream or excavation or public place other than a proper toilet or portable toilet.

(Prior code § 4271.1)

No employee shall accept or solicit for himself or herself drinks of alcoholic beverages from any customer at the place where he or she is employed.

(Prior code § 4274)

A. No person shall appear, bathe, sunbathe, walk, dress or undress, or ride in or on any vehicle, or be in any public parking playground or place or on any public land, or on any private property which is open to view from any public area or public right-of-way in such a manner that the genitals, pubic hair, anus, anal regions, natal cleft, perineum, or the crease of the buttocks of any person, or any portion of the breast at or below the upper edge of the areola thereof of any female person, is exposed to public view or is not covered by any opaque covering.

B. The provisions of this section shall not apply to children under age ten (10).

C. It shall be an infraction for any person to violate any of the provisions of this section and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in Section 1.24.010 of the El Monte Municipal code.

(Prior code § 4276)

A. It is unlawful for any person to coerce, threaten, hound, or intimidate another person for the purpose of soliciting alms on any street or other place that is open to the public, whether publicly or privately owned. For purposes of this section, the term "soliciting alms" means and refers to any activity or conduct commonly known as panhandling in which one person seeks to obtain money or something of value from a third person, whether by words, bodily gestures, signs, or other means in a face-to-face setting. For purposes of this section, the terms "coerce, threaten, hound, or intimidate" means that:

1. The conduct of the persons soliciting alms causes a reasonable solicitee to fear for his or her safety; or

2. The person soliciting aims intentionally blocks the path or unreasonably obstructs the movement of the solicitee; or

3. The person soliciting alms follows the solicitee while the solicitor demands money or something of value after the solicitee informs the solicitor by words, bodily gesture, signs or other means that the solicitee does not want to give the solicitor money or some other thing of value to which he or she is not entitled under law.

B. Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to prosecution and punishment under Section 1.24.010 of this code.

(Prior code § 4277)

No person shall place or affix any commercial advertising handbill, leaflet, dodger or other printed commercial advertisement of any kind on any vehicle parked in any public place or parked on any privately owned parking lot open to the public without the express written consent of the owner or person in lawful possession of the vehicle or property. The provisions in this section shall not apply to political or bona fide nonprofit charitable organizations or communications.

(Prior code § 5503)