Davis, CA Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

06 (Aggressive and Obstructive Conduct and Unattended Personal Property in Public Places and Rights of Way), makes it unlawful to willfully and knowingly solicit money or alms within fifteen feet of any entrance or exit of a bank, credit union or other financial institution during its business hours, or within fifteen feet of an automated teller machine while it is available for customer use; where the ATM sits inside a dedicated ATM facility, the fifteen feet is measured from that facility's own entrance or exit.

010(c), explain the reasoning: solicitation near banks and ATMs is treated as especially dangerous because it can carry an implicit threat to both the solicited person and their cash. 030 defines 'solicitation of money or alms' broadly, as spoken words or bodily gestures asking, begging or requesting an immediate donation or the immediate sale of goods or services, and defines 'aggressive conduct' separately to include threatening gestures, unwanted physical contact, persistent following after being told to stop, and profane or abusive language meant to intimidate.

An ATM inside a building whose main purpose is unrelated to banking, such as a supermarket, is excluded from the fifteen-foot rule, but only during that building's regular operating hours. The article does not touch panhandling generally away from financial institutions; it is narrowly aimed at the bank and ATM perimeter, plus separately worded bans on blocking sidewalks, median strips and building entrances.