Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal Code Ch. 9.32 Residential Picketing

The following words and phrases, whenever used in this chapter, shall be construed as defined in this section, except where the context clearly requires otherwise:

A. Residential dwelling means any permanent building being used by its occupants solely for non-transient residential uses.

B. Picketing activity means the demonstration by one or more persons to protest the activities or policies of a person or entity.

C. Picketing activity that is targeted at means picketing activity that is targeted at a particular residential dwelling and proceeds on a definite course or route in front of or around that particular residential dwelling.

(Code 1981, § 9.32.020; Ord. No. 458, § 1(part), 2007)

A. No person shall engage in picketing activity that is targeted at and is within 300 feet of a particular residential dwelling.

B. This chapter does not and shall not be interpreted to preclude picketing in a residential area that is not targeted at a particular residential dwelling.

(Code 1981, § 9.32.030; Ord. No. 458, § 1(part), 2007)

No person shall willfully make or cause to be made any loud and raucous noise at or within 300 feet of any residence in the city which is intended to harass, threaten or intimidate any person living therein.

(Code 1981, § 9.32.040; Ord. No. 458, § 1(part), 2007)

The remedies provided by this chapter are in addition to any other legal or equitable remedies any aggrieved person may have and are not intended to be exclusive.

(Code 1981, § 9.32.050; Ord. No. 458, § 1(part), 2007)

A violation of this chapter is punishable pursuant to section 1.08.010 (Misdemeanors; infractions; nuisances) of this Code.

(Code 1981, § 9.32.060; Ord. No. 458, § 1(part), 2007)