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
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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.