Hermosa Beach Municipal Code Ch. 5.64 Peddlers and Solicitors

Contents:

5.64.010 Definitions.

5.64.020 Business license required.

5.64.030 Limitations on manner of solicitations.

As used in this chapter:

Individual means only a natural person.

Person means and includes any natural person, firm, partnership, corporation, company, association, society, organization, church congregation, assembly or league and shall include any receiver, trustee, assignee, agent, employee or other similar representative thereof.

Solicit or solicitation shall mean the selling or offering for sale of any property, real or personal, tangible or intangible, whether of value or not, including but not limited to goods, books, pamphlets, tickets, rights to admission to any amusement, show, entertainment, lecture or other enterprise not regularly carried on for private profit or gain by the person for or by whom the solicitation is being made at a fixed place of business within the city, publications or brochures. This section shall apply to any solicitation conducted door to door, in any place of public accommodation, in any place of business open to the public generally on the city streets and sidewalks, in the public parks, or in any public place, and conducted by:

1. Oral or written request; or
2. The local distribution, circulation, posting or publishing of any handbill, written advertisement or other local publication. (Prior code § 17-29.1)

No person, directly or indirectly, shall make any solicitation or authorize any other person to make any solicitation within the city until such person shall have first obtained a business license from the city as provided in this title. (Prior code § 17-29.2)

1. No person to whom a registration statement is issued pursuant to this section or any of its employees, agents or solicitors shall:

2. Solicit between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m.;

3. Solicit at any house, apartment or other dwelling or any business premises to which is affixed a sign indicating "No Solicitors" or similar indication that no solicitation contact is desired by the occupant thereof;

4. Persistently and importunately request any business from any member of the public after such member of the public expresses the desire not to contribute;

5. Intentionally and deliberately obstruct the free movement of any person on any street, sidewalk or other public place or any place open to the public generally.

6. Any person who engages in sidewalk vending as defined in Chapter 12.38 shall be subject to the permit requirements of that chapter in addition to the requirements for a business license under Chapter 5.04. (Ord. 19-1391 §4, 2019: prior code § 17-29.3)