Ordinance - 751i
ORDINANCE N0, 751
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTION 6233 OF THE WEST
COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO PEDDLERS,
SOLICITORS AND JUNK DEALERS.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 6233 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
116233. PEDDLERS, SOLICITORS AND JUNK DEALERS. PERMIT
REQUIRED.
Before any person is granted any license as a peddler or
solicitor of any kind, whether entitled to an exempt license or
not, or as a junk dealer, he, and each of his agents or employees
who will peddle or solicit within the City, shall first furnish
to the City Clerk, or his.authorized assistant or deputy, a
written and signed application for a peddler's or solicitor's
permit. No person shall peddle or solicit within the City
without having on his person a valid and effective peddler's
or solicitor's permit issued by the City Clerk or License
Clerk.
The Police Department shall, within a period of twenty-
one days after the filing of such application, make such
investigation of the applicant, agents and employees as it
deems necessary, and may in connection therewith require any
such person to file a clear recent photograph of himself and
be fingerprinted; and the Police Department within said period
of time shall file a report of its investigation with the City
Clerk. The photographs, fingerprints and all data shall be
filed with the permanent records of the Police Department.
.If such investigation report reveals that any applicant
or agent or employee has been convicted in any court of any
State of the United States or in any court of the United States
of: (1) Any law or ordinance involving moral turpitude; (2)
Robbery, Burglary; (3) Fraud or Embezzlement; (4) Grand theft;
(5) Offenses involving narcotic drugs; (6) Contributing to the
delinquency of a minor, no peddler's or solicitor's permit shall
be issued to such person and no peddler's, solicitor's or junk
dealer's license shall be issued covering the activities of
such person. If such report does not so reveal or if the
Police Department so recommends, the requested permit and
license shall be issued immediately. If no report is received
within said period, the permit and license shall be issued."
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required
by law.
Passed and approved this 13th day of August , 1962.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS..
CITY OF WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 751 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 23rd day of July , 1962. That, there-
after, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at A regular meeting
of the City Council on the 13th day of August , 19622 by the
following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Towner, Heath, Snyder, Mayor Barnes
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Jett
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