Simi Valley Municipal Code Ch. 42 Placing Fliers, Handbills, Leaflets, and Other Printed Material On…

The City Council finds and declares that:

(a) Privately owned vehicles, even when parked on public streets, are not public forums and therefore the placement of fliers, handbills, leaflets, and other printed material on them may be regulated by the City by reasonable time, place and manner regulations, so long as such regulations meet legal requirements.

(b) The intent of this chapter is to advance the City's significant governmental interests in prohibiting litter and visual blight, as well as furthering the rights that vehicle owners have in their private property to be left alone by those who do not have permission to use it. The City Council finds and determines that the prohibition contained in this chapter directly advances these interests in a narrow constitutionally permissible way by targeting the problem it seeks to correct.

(c) The City Council further finds and determines that the prohibition on placing fliers, handbills, leaflets, and other printed material on vehicles leaves open ample alternative channels of communications in that such material may still be offered to pedestrians and others who may choose to accept it or not accept it.

(§ 1, Ord. 1131, eff. June 12, 2008)

It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to distribute, deposit, throw or place any flier, handbill, leaflet, or other printed material on any automobile or other vehicle. The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the handing, transmitting or distributing of any flier, handbill, leaflet, or other printed material to the owner or other occupant of any automobile or other vehicle who is willing to accept it.

(§ 1, Ord. 1131, eff. June 12, 2008)