For purposes of this chapter, the City Council finds as follows:
(A) The City Council finds "aggressive solicitation" is unsafe and disruptive to persons in the City of Menifee and is a threat to public health, safety, and general welfare.
(B) The City Council finds that solicitation at banks, automatic teller machines and check cashing businesses, from persons in vehicles, in parking lots after dark, in public transportation vehicles, at gasoline stations and fuel pumps, in driveways, on median strips and freeway ramps, in city parks, on landscaped parkways/trails, and at dining establish ments subjects persons in the City of Menifee to danger. Soliciting from persons in vehicles results in the congestion of public streets and can lead to distracted drivers causing accidents constituting a danger to pedestrian and vehicular traffic safety. The City Council further finds that soliciting from people in locations where it is difficult to avoid the solicitation makes persons who will commonly be carrying money on their persons vulnerable to intimidation and such solicitation detracts from the rights of persons in the city to quietly enjoy public facilities.
(C) The restrictions of this section are content neutral and are narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest but still provide alternative avenues of communication. The reasonable time, place, manner restrictions of this section avoid the negative effects of aggressive solicitation and solicitation in unsafe places and will not unreasonably restrict free speech of people engaged in solicitation.
(Ord. 2017-210, passed 5-17-2017)