Earlier editions: 2026-09
Title 9 — PUBLIC PEACE, MORALS AND WELFARE
Paradise Municipal Code Ch. 9.20 Picketing
Paradise Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Paradise
Cite as: Paradise Municipal Code Chapter 9.20 · Text as of 2026-10-04
9.20.010 - To prevent employment.¶
It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the premises of another or any approach thereto, where any person is employed or seeks employment or any place to approach thereto where such employee or person seeking employment lodges or resides, for the purpose of inducing such employee or person seeking employment, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-16)
9.20.020 - To prevent patronage.¶
It is unlawful for any person to beset or picket the premises of another or any approach thereto, for the purpose of inducing others, by means or compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to refrain from entering such premises or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business with the owner or occupant of such premises. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-17)
9.20.030 - Assembling to prevent employment.¶
It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate or meet together in the vicinity of any premises where other persons are employed or seek employment or upon the streets, highways, approaches or places adjacent thereto, for the purpose of inducing such employees, or persons seeking employment, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from seeking or freely entering into employment. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-18)
9.20.040 - Assembling to prevent patronage.¶
It is unlawful for any person, in association or agreement with one or more persons, to assemble, congregate or meet together in the vicinity of the premises of another or upon the streets, highways or approaches thereto, for the purpose of inducing others, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to refrain from entering such premises or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business with the owner or occupant of such premises. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-19)
9.20.050 - Prohibited language, tone and gestures.¶
It is unlawful for any person to utter to or, within the hearing of, another, any derogatory, indecent, opprobrious epithets or language or to make any loud or unusual noise or to speak in a loud or unusual tone or to cry out or proclaim or to use any gestures for the purpose of inducing any persons, by means of compulsion, coercion, intimidation, threats, acts of violence or fear, to quit his or her employment or to refrain from patronizing, negotiating with or transacting business with any other person. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-20)
9.20.060 - Signs and banners provoking breach of peace.¶
It is unlawful for any person to display signs, banners or inscriptions on automobiles or other vehicles or bulletin boards, with any words, phrases or signs intending to incite riots or disorder or which inscriptions are seditious or which in anywise tend to create or provoke or do create or provoke a breach of peace. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-21)
9.20.070 - Peaceful picketing.¶
Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed or held to prohibit peaceful picketing, nor to prohibit labor from attempting to accomplish its aims in trade disputes by other peaceable means, including collective bargaining. (Ord. 16 §1(L)(part), 1980: county code §15-22)
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