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4097ORDINANCE NO. 4097 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM REPEALING SECTION 4.04.130 OF CHAPTER 4.04, TITLE 4 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING A NEW SECTION 4.04.130 IN ITS PLACE AND STEAD RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION OF AFFIXING SIGNS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY AND UTILITY POLES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Title 4, Chapter 4.04 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be amended by repealing Section 4.04.130 and adding thereto a new Section 4.04.130 to read as follows: "4.04.130 PROHIBITION OF SIGNS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY AND PRIVATE UTILITY PROPERTY (a) The term "sign" as used in this section shall include any card, banner, handbill, sign, poster, printing, writing, drawing, painting, decoration, pictorial representation or adver- tising or publicity or notice of any kind. (b) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, committee or organization, except a public officer or employee in the performance of a public duty or unless required by ordinance of the City of -Anaheim or the laws of the State or of the United States, to place or cause to be placed, any sign on or within any public street, highway, or sidewalk right of way in the City of Anaheim, or to affix any sign to any curb, telephone pole, utility pole, lamp post, traffic or parking control device, hydrant, bridge, tree, bus shelter, or other objects legally permitted within said public street, highway, or sidewalk right of way, or on or over other property owned or controlled by the City of Anaheim, except that street, traffic and parking, bus stop, hospital, bus shelter signs authorized by the City, or other duly authorized official City, County, or State signs may be placed or affixed on such public rights of way. (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to signs placed or maintained upon, or in front of, or attached to, or above any building or premises, either wholly within the �-. property lines or projecting beyond the property line over the public sidewalk, regulated by the provisions of Title 18, Chapter 18.05 of the Anaheim Municipal Code. (d) Any sign affixed to any property in violation of the provisions of this section is hereby declared to be and is a public nuisance. Any sign prohibited by the provisions of this section may be removed by any employee of the City duly author- ized so to do by the Public Works Executive Director or Utilities General Manager. In the event a sign or signs is removed by an employee of the City of Anaheim in accordance with the terms of this section, the person responsible -for the affixing of such sign or signs shall be liable to the City of Anaheim for the cost of removal in addition to any other penalties provided by law. (e) Penalty. �Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an infraction. (f) Every person who gives information leading . to the arrest and conviction of any person who violates any of the provisions of this section shall receive as a reward from the City of Anaheim the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00). The Finance Director is hereby authorized and directed to pay from any appropriation -created for the purpose the sum of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) to each person who gives such information, provided that a claim therefor is filed with the Finance Director within sixty (60) days after conviction and that such claim is approved by the City Attorney. SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be -printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper -of general circulation, printed, published and cir- culated in said City, and thirty (30) days from and after its final passage it shall take effect and be -in full force. the THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by City Council of the City .of Anaheim this 29th day of ti non -2- STATE OF CALIFORNIA. ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LINDA.D. ROBERTS, City Clerk.of�.the'.City..of'Anaheim,.do.heteby..certify that.the'.foregoing-Ordinance No.'409�7•was introduced'.at a.regular.meeting. of the'. City Council of ' the'. City. of ' Anaheim, .held on�. the'. 22nd - day .of ' January, 1980, and that the same was duly-.passed'and adopted'..at a regular meeting of said City Council.held on'the'29th.day of'January,•1980, by.the'following vote of the members thereof: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Overholt,.Kaywood, Bay, Roth and Seymour NOES:' COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT:..COUNCIL MEMBERS:' None.'. AND I FURTHER CERTIFY . that . the' Mayor '.of the'. City ..of ' Anaheim signed' said Ordinance No. 4097. on:..the' 29th. day ,of � January, .•1980.. . IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto-set'my hand and affixed the official seal of the'City of'Anaheim this 29th-day.of'January, 1980. CITY RK.OF.THE.CITY OF ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4097 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 8th day of February, 1980.