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Home My WebLink AboutCC Ord 1302 1990-04-09 ORDINANCE NUMBER ~~ . AN ORDINA~CE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH AMENDI~~ "HAPTER 19B OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF :~.L BEACH RELATING TO SIGNS AND DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF 'THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Chapter 19B of the Code of the City of Seal Beach, California, is hereby amended by adding Article III as follows: I "Article III. Handbills and Signs on Public Property or Public Utility Property. Section 19B-6. Purpose. The purpose of this Article is to promote the safety of public workers, utility workers, and the public generally by eliminating hazards caused by signs and handbills placed on public and utility p~operty, to promote and enhance the quality of the visual environment and thereby promote the pUblic welfare and maintain the value of properties adjacent to pUblic and utility property, and to promote traffic safety by limiting distracting handbills and signs and forbidding those which obstruct visibility to vehicular or pedestrian traffic, and to otherwise protect and promote the public health, safety, and welfare. Section 19B-7. Prohibited Generally. I N~ - rson shall paint, mark, or write on, or post or . derwise affix, any handbill or sign, as that term is defined in Section 28-271.1 of this Code, to or upon any public right-of-way, sidewalk, crosswalk, curb, curbstone, street lamp post, hydrant, tree, shrub, tree stake or guard, railroad trestle, electric light or power or telephone or telegraph or trolley wire pole or appurtences or apparatus connected therewith, or wire appurtenant thereof or upon any fixture of the fire alarm or police telegraph system or upon any lighting system or public bridge, drinking fountain, life buoy, life preserver, life boat, or other life saving equipment, street sign or traffic sign owned or maintained by any public agency or public utility, as that term is defined in Section 216 of the California Public Utilities Code. Section 19B-8. violations. I Any handbill or sign, as that term is defined in Section 28-271.1 of this Code, found posted, or otherwise affixed upon any public property or property owned or maintained by a public utility, as that term is defined in Section 216 of the California Public utilities Code, contrary to the provisions of this Article is declared to be a public nuisance and may be removed by the City. Th~ p~rson responsible for any such illegal posting shal~ be liable for the cost incurred in the removal thereof and the City Manager is authorized tr, p'fect the collection of that cost. Ordinance Number I~()~ SECTION 2. SECTION 3. Section 19B-9. Exceptions Nothing in this section shall apply to any of the following: (a) the painting of house numbers upon curbs done under permits issued by the City and consistent with standards established by I that permit, (b) signs installed upon or affixed by a public utility, as that term is defined in Section 216 of the California Public utilities Code, to property owned or maintained by that utility which are otherwise in compliance with this Code and other applicable laws and regulations, (c) any sign installed upon or affixed by a public agency created under the law of the State of California or the United States to property owned or maintained by that agency which are otherwise in compliance with this Code and other applicable laws and regulations." The City Council of the City of Seal Beach hereby finds that the proliferation of signs and handbills on pUblic and utility property in the City has produced a hazard to the safety of employees who must work on utility poles and other public and utility fixtures. Moreover, such signs and handbills have impaired visibility of pedestrian and vehicular traffic and contributed to the distraction of vehicle operators and thus created traffic hazards. Unless this ordinance takes effect promptly the City's authority to abate these hazards will not be free from doubt. Accordingly, this ordinance must go into effect without delay in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare. This is an urgency ordinance and shall take effect immediately upon adoption pursuant to Section 412 of the Seal Beach Official Charter. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required by law. the City on the C~~l of the City t!t day of of Seal PROVED AND ADOPTED by mee ing thereof held # , 1990. ATTEST: ~I.~ M or -~~\\\, .:=o~O~ SEAl 8 "'I ..~ OOODOOO ~~~. -=~,... "f.OtPOt40;.o-Yr..~ t; ...~ '0\"1- >> ~\~ o o g c( ~~o 0.8-2 ~ \~O" ' q'" "'In ~...Q...."oo/" 27, \..0J'..:~-= .... ~ ("; 0000000 ,..".# "'\\~IJ Nt1 . ~'4F ilIlln I I ordinanee Number ~~~. I STATE OF CALIFORNIA) COUNTY OF ORANGE )SS . CITY OF SEAL BEACH} I I, Joanne M. Yeo, City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach, California, do hereby certify that/~e foregoing ordinance is the original copy of Ordinan Number L'.:kJt/Z; on file in the office~... the City Clerk, intro c at a meeting thereof held on the ~ day of , , 1990, and passed, approved and adopted by the Clty of t e City o~l ,Beach at a meeting there of held on the day of ~....J~ , 0 by the following vote: NOES: Councilmembers AYES: Councilmembers . ABSENT: Councilmembers and do hereby further certify that Ordinance Number ~~r~ has been published pursuant to the Seal Beach City Charter an~tion Number 2836. I I Ordinance Number I'~~ PROOF OF PUBLICATION (2015.5 C.C.P.) STATE OF CALIFORNIA, County of Orange I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the County afore- said, I am over the age of eighteen years, and not a party to or inter- ested in the above-entitled matter. I am the principal clerk of the pri- nter of the SEAL BEACH JOURNAL a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published weekly in the City of Seal Beach, County of Orange and which newspaper has been adjudg- ed a newspaper of general circula- tion by the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of Califor- nia, under the date of 2/24/75. Case Number A825831 that the notice of which the annexed is a printed copy (set in type not smaller than nonpareil), has been published in each regular and entire issue of said newspaper and not in any sup- plement thereof on the following dates, to-wit: !.In?\r.,: '..:?) . ' all in the year 1990. I certify (or declare) under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated at Seal Beach, California, this --' 1990. day of . . I", 'j , .--' - .~......... I" I ! " J \ I ,/ ~ I. I,,'.. \ .: _1," / : If. , Signature PUBLICATION PROCESSED BY: THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS 216 Main Street P.O. Box 755 Seal Beach, CA 90740 (213) 430-7555 This space is for the County Clerk's Filing Stamp I Proof of Publication of ~q~~~G.~q~~~~~~~~~~~.q~q~~~~~~ \\JC ~ l'?t)2. - ~""''''!S' - V' f'o,e""CI..' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~'- '. . .. . v- . . . . /- . . SUMMARY. ORDINANCE NUMBER 1302 HANDBILLS. SIGNS - PUBLIC PROPERTY OR PUBLIC UTILITY PROPERTY-URGENCY Ordinance Number 1302 of Ihe City of Seal Beach proM"bng any person from painting, markIng, writing on, postIng or otherwise affiXing any handblK Dr sign on pubhc property or public utility property, was introduced at the regular City Council meeting of April 9, 1990 and adopted as an urgency Ordinance by the follOWing VOle: AYES: Grgas, Hunt, Risner, Wilson NOES' Laszlo Morion carried Copies of Ordinance Number 1302 I are available In the offica 01 the City Clerk, City Hall. 211 . 8th Suoo', Seal Beach: le'ephone (213) 431. 2527. DATED THIS 10th day of April, 1990, Joan"" M, Yoo, CI.y Clerk CIty 01 Sool looch Apnl19, 1990 Published In the Seal Beach Journal. I