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ORDINANCE NO. 1805
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING
CHAPTER 9.3 TO ARTICLE IV OF THE ARCADIA
MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING ADVERTISING SIGNS
ON MOTOR VEHICLES
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
HEREBY ~DAIN
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a. The City of \~a
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malntalnlng lts appearance\a
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FOLLOWS:
Chapter 9.3 is hereby added to Article IV
al Code to read as follows:
RTISING SIGNS ON MOTOR VEHICLES PROHIBITED
FINDINGS AND PURPOSE
primarily a residential community
nd a substantial interest in
'tigating visual blight and
d. The parking of vehicles, including
land to
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b. The City encourages the m ropriate use of
provide adequate open space, le~en ongestion, promote
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appearance, aCl ltate provlslon fO~CO
conserve and stabilize the value of pEoper
the proliferation of signs.
facilities to
goals to promote the health, safety
community.
c. The purpose of motor vehicles is
consistent with the
placement of advertising signs thereon.
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to,
motor vehicles, boats and trailers upon both stree s, highways.
public and private property within the City for the
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displaying advertising signs constitutes a substantial hazard to
pedestrian and vehicular traffic on City due to the distraction
they cause to the drivers of motor vehicles.
e. The proliferation of such vehicles for advertising sign
presentation and their presence on or upon public or private
property and on streets and highways within the City constitutes
an esthetic blight upon the community which can only be
alleviated by appropriate regulation.
f. Numerous alternative means exist for commercial
advertising and the display and/or distribution of a variety of
advertising messages.
g. The provisions specified in this Ordinance are necessary
to prevent the visual clutter, blight, nonaesthetic appearance
,and traffic safety hazards caused by signs which are placed on
'motor vehicles, and the cumulative effect of additional signs, if
motor vehicles are allowed as an additional location for
advertising.
h. The purpose of this Ordinance is to mitigate the
proliferation of signs that results from the usage of motor
vehicles as a location for advertising signs that are placed on
the vehicle in a highly visible manner.
The Ordinance is not
applicable to advertising that is painted or paneled on the
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v~hicle and advertises the business or enterprise associated with
the vehicle, or bumper stickers.
The Ordinance is not intended
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to address the transient display of advertising on motor vehicles
and therefore no violation shall occur unless and until at least
one written warning has been issued by the Police.
SECTION 4913.1. DEFINITION. MOTOR VEHICLES.
Includes but
is not limited to motor vehicles, boats, and trailers as defined
in California Law.
SECTION 4913.2. DEFINITION. ADVERTISING SIGNS. Any sign,
poster, or similar item or structure built or constructed
separate and apart from the motor vehicle which advertises,
notices, promotes, sponsors or depicts any activity, event,
product, sale, purpose, cause, political candidate, or service
including anything related to the motor vehicle itself.
SECTION 49l3.3. PROHIBITION. No person, corporation,
partnership or other legal entity shall display, place, or permit
'to be placed advertising signs for the purpose of advertising on
any motor vehicle parked upon streets and highways, public or
private property visible to any person on a public street or
'public right-of-way, subsequent to the receipt of one written
warning.
SECTION 4913.4. EXCEPTIONS. The prohibitions of this
Ordinance do not apply to (1) duly licensed and pe~mitted motor
.vehicle, boat, or trailer dealers as to the businesses conducted
on their lawfully approved business premises (2) advertising on
buses and taxicabs (3) those items excluded pursuant to Section
4913(h) of this Ordinance.
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SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and shall cause a copy of the same to be published
once in the official newspaper of said City within fifteen (l5)
days upon its adoption.
Passed, approved and adopted this
day of
Mayor of the City of Arcadia
ATTEST:
I City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS:
, CITY OF ARCADIA
I, CHRISTINE VAN MAANEN, City Clerk of the City of Arc~dia,
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1805 was passed
and adopted by the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
California, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk at
a regular meeting of said Council held on the
day of
1984, and that said Ordinance was adopted by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
,ABSENT:
City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
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