Ordinance Number 2244
ORDINANCE NO. 22
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS; PROH-
IBITING THE DISTRIBTION THEREOF UNDER CERTAIN
CIRCUMSTANCES; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE
VIOLATION THEREOF; AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF.
SECTION 1. "Handbill- defined. The Following words, terms, and
phrases when used in this ordinance have the meaningsdescribed to them
in this section, except when the context clearly indicates a different
meaning:
HANDBILL includes any printed or written advertising matter, any
sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, paper
booklet, or any other printed matter or literature.
SECTION 2. Throwing handbills on public property prohibited-Exc-
eption—Handing to willing recipients. No person, either directly or
indirectly, shall deposit, place, throw, scatter, or cast any handbill
in or on any public thoroughfare, park, ground, or other public place
within the City; the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to
prohibit the handing of any handbill to any person willing to accept
such handbill.
SECTION 3.1 Putting handbills in or upon vehicles prohibited —
Exception — Handing to owner or occupant. No person, either directly
or indirectly, shall distribute, deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast
any handbill in or upon any automobile or other vehicle; the provisions
of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the handing of any hand-
bill to the owner or other occupant of any automobile or other vehicle.
SECTION 4. Putting handbills on private property prohibited. No
person either directly or indirectly, shall distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter, or cast, any handbill in or upon any private yard, gro-
unds, wale, porch, steps, mailbox, vestibule, house, residence, build-
ing, or any other private property. -'
SECTION 5. Sign on premises indicating no handbills desired to be
honored by ditributors. It shall be lawful for the owner or the occup-
ant of any property to place a sign in a conspicuous place near the en-
trance thereof indicating that no handbills are desired; and no person
shall go upon the premises so posted and distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter, or cast any handbill, or solicit the right to make free
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delivery of any handbill thereto.
SECTION 6. Hours for distributing handbills restricted. No person
shall distribute any handbill between the hours of 5 P.M. of any day and
8 A.M. of the follwoing day.
SECTION y. Excemption from ordinance — Manner of delivering hand-
bills to one who has requested it. The provisions of this ordinance
shall not apply to the distribution of the United States mail nor to the
delivery of any handbill to any person who has requested delivery of the
same. In making delivery of any handbill to any person who had requested
the same, the handbill shall either be delivered persoially to the person
who has requested the same or plaeed upon his premises in such a manner
that the handbill will not be blown from the premises of such person onto
the private property of other persons, or the streets, or public places
within the City.
SECTION 8. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ord-
inance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine
not to exceed $500.00, or by imprisonment in the County jail for a period
not to exceed six Months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 9. This ordinance is an ordinance for the immediate preser-
vation of the public peace, health and safety and the following is a dec-
laration of the facts constituting the urgency.
The City of San Juan Capistrano, a municipal corporation, became
duly incorporated on the 19th day of April, 1961. On said date the rules
regulation and ordinance of the County of Orange that were in effect and
operative in the area within the boundaries of the present City of San
Juan Capistrano are no longer of any force or effect by reason of the
incorporation of the city. In order that the public will be protected
immediately, it is necessary that this Ordinance be adopted as an emer-
gency measure.
SECTION 10. This ordinance shall take effect immediately and with-
in fifteen (15) days shall be publi'shdd in the Coastline Dispatch, to-
gether with the names of the City Councilmen voting for and against the
same.
Passed, apnroved and adopted this first day of May, 1961.
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Maror of San Juan Capistrano
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ATTEST:
City Clerk Pro Tem
State of California )
County of Orange ) as.
City of San Juan Capistrano)
I, Ernest Thompson, City Clerk Pro Tempore of the City of San Juan
Capistrano, do hereby certify that the foregoing and attached Ordinance
was finally passed, approved and adopted by the City Council of the City
of San Juan Capistrano at a regular meeting thereof held on the first
day of May, 1961.
(SEAL)
AYES: Councilmen: Bathgate, Chermak,
Durnford, Olivares, Buchheim
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
City Clerk Pro Tem
ORDINANCE NO. 23
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO
PROHIBITING THE PRACTICE OR E%HIBTION OF THE
BUSINESS OR ART OF ASTFOI®GY, PALMISTRY, PHREN-
OLOGY LIFE READING, FORTUNE TELLING AND SIMILAR
PURSUITS; PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES HEREUNDER AND
DECLARING THE URGENCY HEREOF.
SECTION 1. Fortune telling, mediumship, magic — Practice for co-
mpensation prohibited. — It is unlawful in the City of San Juan Capis-
trano for any person, firm or corporation to carry on, practice or pro-
fess to practice the business or art of astrology, palmistry, phrenolo-
gy, life -reading fortune telling, cartomancy, clairvoyance, clairaudie-
nce, crystal gazing, hy,)notism, mediumship, spirit photography, spirit
writing, spirit voices, spirit materialization, etheralization, prophecy
augury, divination, magic necromancy, character reading, or fortune tell=
ing by handwriting analysis, or other similar business or art and to de-
mand or receive directly or indirectly a fee, gift, donation or reward
for the exercise or exhibition of his, her or its art therin.
SECTION 2. Fortune telling, spiritualism, magic — Exhibition for