Vacaville, CA Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

72, Aggressive and Unsafe Soliciting, opens with council findings that soliciting in roadways and near driveways creates traffic danger and that aggressive solicitation intimidates people in "captive audience" settings like ATMs and buses. 020 defines "aggressive manner" to include approaching or following a person if the conduct is likely to make a reasonable person fear bodily harm or property loss, intentionally touching a person or occupied vehicle without consent, blocking or delaying a pedestrian or vehicle, using violent or threatening gestures, persisting after being told no, or using profane or abusive language likely to provoke fear.

040 layers on location-specific bans that apply even to polite solicitation: no soliciting from or to an occupant of an unparked or traffic-blocking vehicle on a public street; no soliciting or loitering on a median strip; no soliciting within 15 feet of a commercial driveway, measured from the driveway's edge; no soliciting on any public transportation vehicle; and no soliciting within 15 feet of a financial institution's entrance during business hours or within 15 feet of an ATM or ATM facility while it is available for customer use. 060 makes clear the chapter does not replace or limit enforcement of any other applicable law.