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ORDINANCE NO. 6$7
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SEAL BEACH REGULATING
ADVERTISING DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO LANDSCAPED FREEWAYS.
The City Council of the City of Seal Beach odes ordain as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this article, certain terms
are defined as follows:
(a) "ADVERTISING STRUCTURE" Refers to a structure of any kind
or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes on
which any poster, bLll, printing, painting, or other advertisement of
any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary.
(b) "SIGN" Refers to any card, cloth, metal, painted or wooden
sign of any character, placed for outdoor advertising purposes, on or
to the ground, or any tree, wall, bush, rock, fence, building, structure,
or thing, either publicly or privately owned, other than an advertising
structure.
(c) Neither 'advertising structure' nor "sign" as used in this
article includes:
1. Official notices issued by a court or
public body or officer;
2. Notices posted by any public officer
in performance of a public duty, or by
any person in giving legal notice;
3. Directional, warning, or information
signs or structures required or authorized
by law, or by federal, state, or municipal
authority.
(d) "ADVERTISING DISPLAY" Refers to advertising structures and
to signs.
(e) "FREEWAY" The term freeway shall be deemed to mean a high-
way in respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right
or easement of access to or from their abutting lands or in respect to
which such owners have only limited or restricted fight or easement
of access, and which is declared to be such in compliance with the
Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.
(f) "TO PLACE" The verb "to place" and any of its variants as
applied to advertising displays includes the maintaining and the erect-
ing, constructing, posting, pai~ting, ptinting, tacking, nailing, glue-
ing, stitching, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing, or making
visible, any advertising display on or to the grou~d, or any tree, bush,
rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure, or thing.
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(g) "LANDSCAPED FREEWAY" The term "Landscaped Freeway" shall
be deemed to mean a section or sections of a freeway which is now,
or hereafter may be, improved by the planting of at least on one side
of the freeway right of way, of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other
ornamental vegetation which shall require reasonable maintenance.
Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic safety
requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or traffic noise abatement,
shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.
Section 2. Advertising Displays Adjacent to Landscaped Freeways.
No advertising displays shall be placed or maintained on property ad-
jacent to a section of freeway, which has been, or hereafter may be,
landscaped as defined herein, if the advertising display is designed
to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on such landscaped section
of a freeway.
Section 3. Exempt Advertising Displays. The provisions of
Section 2 of this ordinance shall not apply to any of the following
listed advertising structures or signs :used exclusively:
(a) To advertise the sale or lease of the property on which
said advertising display is placed;
(b) To designate the name of the owner or occupant of the
premises upon which said advertising display is placed or to identify
such premises;
(c) To advertise the business conducted or goods manufactured or
produced, or services rendered upon the property upon which said
advertising display is placed.
Section 4. Removal of Prohibited Displays. Any advertising
structure or sign which is now, or hereafter may be, in violation of
the provisions of Section 2 shall be removed within three (3) years
from the effective date of this ordinance or within three (3) years
from the date when the project for the landscaping of a section of
sections of a freeway shall have been completed or accepted, and the
character of said section or sections shall have been changed from a
freeway to a landscaped freeway, whichever is later.
Section 5. Severability. If any section, sub-section, sentence,
clause, phrase, or portion of this ordinance is, for any reason, held
to be invalid or unconstitutional, by t4e decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not effect the validity of
the remaining portions of this ordinance.
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Section 6. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be effective
thirty (30) days from and after the date of its passage
Section 7. Posting. The City Clerk shall, within fifteen (15)
days after adoption, cause this ordinance to be posted as required by
law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Seal Beach at a meeting thereof held on the bl!i day ofA.?/~OL ,
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ATTEST:
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C[ty Clerk
I, F. W. Hickman, City Clerk of the City of Seal Beach, hereby certify
that the foregoing ordinance was passed, approved, and adopted by the
City ~oun~il of the City of Seal Beach at a meeting thereof held on
the ,g;;- day of K?/fJlf~ , 1966, by the following vote:
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