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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
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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
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SIGNED AND APPROVED
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Mayor of tKe City of Arcadia
City Clerk
(SEAL)
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