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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1528 ORDINANCE NO. 1528 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DELETING AUTHORIZATION TO PLACE OR MAINTAIN ADVERTISING BENCHES ON STREETS OR OTHER PUBLIC PROPERTY. WHEREAS, the Arcadia Beautiful Commission on September 17, 1971 by Resolution 71-2 recommended to the City Council, after study, that due to the visual pOllution created by advertising benches on public streets and other public property such advertising benches be excluded from said streets and property and that the Arcadia Municipal Code be amended to require such exclusion; and WHEREAS, the City Council thereafter determined that the staff work with the advertising bench owners in order to phase out advertising benches on streets and public property over a three-year period; and WHEREAS, staff has proceeded to that end although full removal of advertising benches has not been accomplished on a voluntary basis to date, although the three-year periOd has expired; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Article VI of the Arcadia Municipal Code is hereby amended to deleting the following: (a) Section 6220.1.i. (b) Division 8 of Part 2, Chapter 4 in its entirety, incl,uding Sections 6428 through 6428.23. SECTION 2. After the effective date of this ordinance, advertising benches on public streets or public property within -1- 1528 the city of Arcadia are hereby declared to constitute a nuisance and shall be removed and stored by the Director of Public Works. The owner of such advertising bench so removed and stored may recover such advertising bench if within sixty (60) days after the removal he pays to the City the cost of such removal and storage which cost shall not exceed Two Dollars ($2.00) for removal and Five Dollars ($5.00) a month or fraction thereof for storage. After sixty (60) days since removal, the Director of Public Works may sell, destroy or otherwise dispose of such benches at his discretion. SECTION 3. The remedy of removal and storage set forth in the preceding section shall be in addition to any other remedy or penalty otherwise provided for the violation of the ordinances of the City of Arcadia. SECTION 4. The city Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on the l5th day of April , 1975, by the affirmative vot.e of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: councilmen Helms, Lauber, Sae1id, Scott and Gilb None NOES: ABSENT: None '\.......) SIGNED AND APPROVED ~Ltk~' Mayor of tKe City of Arcadia City Clerk (SEAL) -2- 1528