Title 7 — HIGHWAYS AND TRAFFIC›Division 2 — TRAFFIC CODE
Article 21 — VENDING OF PRINTED MATTER FROM PUBLIC STREETS
San Diego County Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-02 · San Diego County
*Note--Added by Ord. No. 2225 (N.S.), effective 7-26-61.
SEC. 72.301. DEFINITIONS.¶
Whenever in this article the following terms are used, they shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them as follows:
(a) "Street" shall mean and includes any and every public thoroughfare, way, street, alley and highway, freeway, the curbing, sidewalk, parkway and structures, whether such right of way is owned or maintained by a public district, a city, the County of San Diego or the State of California, and all public property bordering upon such thoroughfare, way, street, alley or highway in the County of San Diego. "Street" shall mean and include any real property in the incorporated territory of the County of San Diego situated immediately adjacent to or contiguous to any public thoroughfare, way, street, alley, sidewalk or parkway in the unincorporated territory of the County of San Diego, except that "street" shall not include such incorporated territory until the governing body having jurisdiction thereof shall by resolution or ordinance consent to such exercise of concurrent jurisdiction by the County.
(b) "To sell" means and includes to print, prepare, publish, vend, distribute, disseminate or throw away or to attempt to print, prepare, publish, vend, distribute, disseminate or throw away. "To sell" further means and includes to hold out or offer in return for remuneration or to hold out, suggest, advertise or offer without charge, and includes active as well as passive holding out, suggesting or advertising by any means or manner whatsoever.
(c) "Person" means and includes, in addition to the meaning set forth in Section12.115 of the San Diego County Code, all agents and employees, apparent or actual, who are acting on their own or on their principal's behalf and their principal or employer.
SEC. 72.302. SUPERVISORIAL FINDING.¶
The Board of Supervisors of the County of San Diego hereby finds and determines as follows:
That the use of the streets within the County of San Diego by persons for the purpose of selling or giving away written, printed or duplicated forms, charts, tables, lists, sheets, posters, papers, dodgers, handbills, circulars, letters, booklets and other matter giving or purporting to give the entry or entries or probable entry or entries of contestants in any horse race or other contests concurrently taking place, thereafter to take place or which have taken place in the County of San Diego, or the selling or giving away of such matter which gives or purports to give tips, information, predictions, selections of or advice as to the winners or probable winners or losers or of the standing or probable standing of any horse or other contestant, or the selling or giving away of such matter which contains or purports to contain the actual, probable or possible state, past, present or future, of the betting, wagering or odds upon or against any horse or other contestant in any such horse race or other contest, has created and will continue to create, unless prohibited, serious, difficult and dangerous traffic conditions upon the streets within the County of San Diego; that serious congestion of vehicular traffic has resulted and will result to the extent that the health, safety and welfare of persons using said streets has been and will be put in immediate and grave peril. The Board further finds and determines that no other remedy is adequate to control and effectually solve said traffic congestion and peril except to prohibit entirely the activity of persons as hereinabove described upon the streets within the County of San Diego.
SEC. 72.303. PROHIBITION.¶
No person shall sell or give away, whether from a fixed location or transiently, upon, over or across any street within the County of San Diego any written, printed or duplicated form, chart, table, list, sheet, poster, paper dodger, handbill, circular, letter, booklet or any other printed, typewritten, mimeographed or written matter giving or purporting to give the entries or
probable entries of contestants in any horse race or other contest concurrently taking place or thereafter to take place or which has taken place anywhere within the County of San Diego or any such writing which gives or purports to give any tip, information, prediction or selection of, or advice as to the selection of, or advice as to the winner or probable winner or a loser or probable loser or of the standing or probable standing of any horse or other contestant therein or any writing which contains the actual, probable or possible state, past, present or future of the betting, wagering or odds upon or against any horse or other contestant in any such horse race or contest.
SEC. 72.304. SKATEBOARDS: PROHIBITION WITHIN THE JULIAN AREA.¶
(1) It shall be unlawful:
(a) for any person to ride or propel a skateboard upon any public street, sidewalk, alley or plaza within the following
limits in the Julian area:
Starting at the intersection of Main Street and Porter Lane and proceeding northwesterly to the intersection of Main and
"C" Streets; then northeasterly on "C" Street to its intersection with Second Street; then northwesterly on Second Street to its intersection with Washington Street; then southwesterly on Washington Street to the northeast alley of Main Street; then northwest in the alley to its intersection with "A" Street; then southwesterly on "A" street to its intersection with Main Street; then northwesterly on Main Street/Farmer Road to the northern boundary of Frank Lane Park; then southeasterly on Farmer Road/Main Street to its intersection with "A" Street; then southwesterly on "A" street to its termination and back northeasterly to its intersection with Main Street; then southeasterly on Main Street to its intersection with Washington Street; then southwesterly on Washington Street to Coleman Creek; then northeasterly on Washington Street to its intersection with Fourth Street; then southeasterly on Fourth Street to its intersection with "C" Street; then northeasterly on "C" Street to its intersection with Main Street; then southeasterly on Main Street to the point of the beginning. The area described above shall include all public sidewalks along the outer perimeter.
(b) It shall also be unlawful for any person to ride or propel a skateboard on or within the boundary of the area governed
by the Julian Cemetery District, commonly known as the Julian Haven of Rest Cemetery, which property boundary is bordered by Farmer Road on the northeast boundary, by "A" Street on the southeast boundary, and by barbed wire fencing on the southwest and northwest boundaries.
(Added by Ord. No. 9109 (N.S.), effective 1-13-00)
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