This Chapter is intended to protect the residents and visitors
of the City of Palm Springs against the health and safety menace and
the expense and visual blight incident to the littering of the streets
and public places by the indiscriminate and uncontrolled distribution
of handbills, and the posting of handbills on the public infrastructure,
and to protect private residential property against distribution of
handbills of any kind when the property has been posted with a "No
Solicitors" sign or equivalent notice stating that solicitation is
unwelcome.
(Prior code §§ 203.1—203.14; Ord. 1616 § 2, 2002; Ord. 1773 § 1, 2010)
The following words, terms and phrases when used in this Chapter
have the meanings ascribed to them in this section except where the
context clearly indicates a different meaning:
means and includes any person engaging or engaged in the
distribution of handbills, and any person receiving compensation directly
or indirectly for the distribution of such handbills;
means and includes any printed or written matter, any sample
or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine,
paper booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original
or copies of any matter or literature;
means and includes any person, firm, partnership, association,
corporation, company, or organization of any kind;
means and includes any dwelling, house, building, or other
structure, designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential
purpose, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited
or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch
steps, vestibule, building or other structure; and
means and includes any and all streets, boulevards, avenues,
lanes, alleys, or other public ways, and any and all public parks,
squares, spaces, plazas, grounds and buildings.
(Prior code §§ 203.2—203.28; Ord. 1616 § 3, 2002; Ord. 1773 § 1, 2010)
No person shall post, stick, stamp, paint or otherwise fix,
or cause the same to be done by any person, any notice, placard, bill,
card, poster advertisement or other paper or device or upon any sidewalk,
crosswalk, curb or curbstone, flagstone or any other portion or part
of any public way or public place, or any lamp post, electric light,
telegraph, telephone or trolley line pole, traffic control device,
or railway structure, hydrant, tree or tree-box, or upon the piers,
columns, trusses, girders, railings, gates or other parts of any public
bridge or viaduct or other public structure or building, or upon any
pole, box, or fixture of the fire alarm or police telegraph system,
except such as may be authorized or required by the laws of the United
States, or state and the ordinances of the city.
(Prior code § 203.3; Ord. 1616 § 4, 2002; Ord.
1773 § 1, 2010)
It is unlawful for any person to leave by depositing, placing,
throwing, scattering or casting any handbill in or upon any public
place within this city; provided however, that it is not unlawful
for any person to hand out or distribute handbills to members of the
public, providing there is compliance with other applicable provisions
of the Municipal Code.
(Prior code § 203.31; Ord. 1616 § 5, 2002; Ord.
1773 § 1, 2010)
No person shall deposit, place, throw, scatter, or cast any
handbill in or upon any automobile or other vehicle if requested by
anyone in possession thereof not to do so, either orally or via a
sign on that automobile or other vehicle.
(Prior code § 203.32; Ord. 913 § 5, 1971; Ord. 1616 § 6, 2002; Ord. 1773 §
1, 2010)
It is unlawful for any person to distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter or cast any handbill upon any private residential premises
if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous place or position
near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words "NO SOLICITORS",
or any similar notice indicating that the distribution of handbills
is unwelcome.
(Prior code § 203.34; Ord. 1616 § 7, 2002; Ord.
1773 § 1, 2010)
In the case of private premises which are not posted as provided
in this Chapter, a person may place or deposit any such handbill in
or upon private residential premises, if such handbill is so placed
or deposited as to secure or prevent such it from being blown or drifted
about such premises or elsewhere. The deposit of handbills inside
of mailboxes is prohibited.
(Prior code § 203.35; Ord. 1616 § 8, 2002; Ord.
1773 § 1, 2010)
