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ORDINANCE NO. 1798
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, ADDING
CHAPTER 9.2 TO ARTICLE IV OF THE ARCADIA
MUNICIPAL~CODE REGARDING SIGNS ON PUBLIC
PROPERTY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 9.2 is hereby added to Article IV
of the Arcadia Municipal Code to read as follows:
CHAPTER 9.2. PROHIBITION OF POSTING ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Section 4912. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS.
a. The City of Arcadia is primarily a residential community
with well maintained property, and a substantial interest in
maintaining its appearance and mitigatipg visual blight and
clutter.
b. The City encourages the most appropriate use of land to
provide adequate open space, lessen conjestion, promote
appearance, facilitate provision for community facilities, and
utilities, to conserve and stabilize the value of property and
other related goals to promote the health, safety and general
welfare of the community.
c. The public property of the City of Arcadia is maintained
and utilized for a variety of purposes related to qaid appearance
and the well being of the community.
d. The regularly scheduled temporary nature of election
sign placement is incidental to the aforementioned goals of the
City and utilization of public property.
e. Property and facilities located within the public
right-of-way, such as utility poles, benches, hydrants, bridges,
sidewalks and similar structures are not by tradition or
designation a forum for communication by the general public, and
the Council wishes to preserve these structures for their
intended purposes, which is the safe, efficient and pleasant
movement of vehicular and pedestrian traffic and operation of
utility systems.
f. The regulations and prohibitions specified in this
section are necessary to preserve the public right-of-way and
public property for their intended purposes, and to prevent the
visual clutter, blight, and traffic safety hazards caused by
temporary signs.
Section 4912.1. PROHIBITION. No person shall paint, mark
or write on, or post or otherwise affix, any handbill or sign to
or upon any public right-of-way and median, parkways, public
easements, parks, civic center property, sidewalk, crosswalk,
curb, curbstone, street lamp post, hydrant, tree, shrub, tree
stake or guard, railroad trestle, electric light or power or
telephone or telegraph of trolley wire pole, or wire appurtenance
thereof or upon any fixture of the fire alarm or police telegraph
system or upon any lighting system, public bridge, drinking
fountain, life saving equipment, street sign or traffic sign, or
upon any other object on public property.
Section 4912.2. ENFORCEMENT. Any handbill or sign found
posted, or otherwise affixed upon any public property contrary to
the provisions of this section may be removed by the Police
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Department or the Department of Public Works. The person
responsible for any such illegal posting shall be liable for the
cost incurred in the removal thereof and the Department of Public
Works is authorized to effect the collection of said costs. Any
sign, handbill or related item removed by the City may be
considered abandoned if it is not retrieved within fifteen (15)
calendar days after the date of such removal, and may be disposed
of by the City without liability to any person.
Section 4912.3. EXCEPTION. COMMEMORATIVE ITEMS. Nothing
in this section shall apply to the installation of a metal plaque
or plate or individual letters or figures in a sidewalk
commemorating an historical, cultural, or artistic event,
location or personality for which the City Council has granted
approval.
Section 4912.4. EXCEPTION. ADDRESSES. Nothing in this
section shall apply to the painting of house numbers upon curbs
done under permits issued by the City.
Section 4912.5. EXCEPTION. TEMPORARY ELECTION SIGNS.
Temporary election signs shall be permitted subject to the
following:
a. Such signs relate to a specific election and are placed
on the property no sooner than thirty (30) days prior to such
election.
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b. Any person who displays a temporary election sign or any
person who owns or possesses the property on which a temporary
election sign is located shall remove it within ten (10) days
after the date of the scheduled election date to which it
relates.
c. No person shall erect, maintain or display a temporary
election sign in excess of 32 square feet in total area, or 16
square feet in area per face whichever is less. No person shall
erect, maintain or display temporary election signs with a total
aggregate area on a given lot in excess of 80 square feet.
d. No person shall erect, maintain or display a temporary
election sign which interferes with the visibility of vehicular
ingress and egress to any lot. All temporary election signs
shall comply with the visibility standards for driveways and
intersections on file with the Planning Department. No person
shall erect, maintain or display a temporary election sign which
interferes with or can be confused with any traffic signal or
device or in any way interferes with the use of the property upon
which it is placed.
e. After twenty-four (24) hours written notice is
personally served on a candidate, proponent or to a person who
owns or possesses property to remove an illegally displayed,
erected or maintained temporary election sign, the Police
Department or Public Works Department may summarily remove said
sign.
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SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and shall cause a copy hereof to be pUblished once
in the official newspaper within fifteen (15) days of the
adoption hereof.
Passed, approved and adopted this 16th day of October, 1984.
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Mayor of the City of Arcadia
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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 Arcadia,
hereby certify that the following Ordinance No. 1798 was passed and
adopted by the City Council of the City of Arcadia, signed by the
Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said
Council on the 16th day of October
, 1984, and that said Ordinance
was adopted by the following vote, to-wit:
NOES:
Councilman
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None .,
y!lb, Lojeski, Pellegrino, Young and Hannah
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City Clerk of the City of Arcadia
AYES:
ABSENT:
None
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