9.22.020 Solicitation From Vehicle Occupants:
A. The purpose of this section is to promote the City’s fundamental interest in public peace, health, and safety by regulating acts of solicitation that occur at locations and under circumstances specified herein which pose substantial risks to vehicular and pedestrian safety.
B. No person shall solicit from the occupants of any vehicle and be physically present within or subsequently enter a prohibited roadway.
C. As used in this section:
1. “Enter” means to cross the vertical plane of the edge of a prohibited roadway. it includes crossing the vertical plane by any part of a persons’ body or any extension thereof.
2. “Prohibited roadway” means a state route, on ramp or off ramp to Interstate 90, or principal arterial, and also the first one hundred feet (100') of a road that intersects a state route, on ramp or off ramp to Interstate 90, or principal arterial, as measured from the edge of the state route, on ramp or off ramp to Interstate 90 or principal arterial.
a. Includes any portion of a road traveled by vehicles.
b. Includes the first five feet (5') beyond the edge of a paved shoulder where there is no sidewalk.
c. Includes medians, which may be denoted by a physical barrier or solid yellow pavement markings.
d. Excludes all sidewalks and cuts
3. “Solicit” means:
a. Either orally or in writing, directly or by implication, to ask, beg, request or plead for employment, goods, services, financial aid, monetary gifts, or any article representing monetary value, for any purpose.
b. Either orally or in writing, to sell or offer for immediate sale goods, services, or publications.
c. to distribute without remuneration goods, services, or publications.
d. To solicit signatures on a petition or opinions for a survey.
D. It is not a violation of this chapter for a person to summon aid in an emergency situation. (Ord. 2610, 3/22/11)