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4089 (2)ORDINANCE NO. 4089 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ADDING �.-- A NEW CHAPTER 7.44 TO TITLE 7 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO GRAFFITI. FOLLOWS: THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS SECTION 1. That Title 7 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding Chapter 7.44 to read as follows: "CHAPTER 7.44 GRAFFITI SECTION 7.44.010 INTENT AND PURPOSE Graffiti on public and private property is a blighting factor which not only depreci- ciates the value of the property which has been the tar- get of such malicious vandalism, but also depreciates the value of the adjacent and surrounding properties, and in so doing, negatively impacts upon the entire com- munity. The City has in the past undertaken to remove graffiti from public property but has been unable to mount a successful program for encouraging the owners of private property to undertake to remove graffiti and other inscribed materials from walls, structures, etc. The last session of the legislature adopted Chapter 330, adding Section 53069.3 to the Government Code and authorizing the City under certain circumstances to provide for the removal of graffiti or other inscribed material. The City Council finds and determines that graffiti is obnoxious and unless it and other inscribed material is removed from public and pri- vate properties, it tends to remain; and other properties are then in the target of graffiti with the result that entire neighborhoods and indeed the community is depre- ciated in value and made a less desirable place to be. The City Council therefore determines that it is appro- priate that the City of Anaheim develop procedures to implement the provisions of Section 53069.3 of the Government Code and provide for the removal of graffiti and other inscribed material from both public and private property under the circumstances set forth hereinafter. -1- SECTION 7.44.020 GRAFFITI REMOVAL Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code to the contrary, whenever the Public Works Executive Director determines f that graffiti or other inscribed material is so located on public or private property as to be capable of being viewed by a person utilizing any public right of way in this City, be this road, parkway, alley, or otherwise, and the owner of the property consents to the removal by the City of the graffiti or other inscribed material and executes such document as the City may provide rela- tive to the removal of the graffiti or other inscribed material, then the Public Works Executive Director is authorized to provide for the removal of the graffiti or other inscribed material. If the Public Works Executive Director provides for the removal of the graffiti or other inscribed material, he shall not authorize nor undertake to provide for the painting or repair of any more extensive area than that where the graffiti or other inscribed material is located." SECTION 2. SEVERABILITY. The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this chap- ter of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other portions of this chapter independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this or- dinance 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 circulated in said City, and thirty (30) days from and after its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this ?fid qday of -January, 1980. MXYOR" OF THE CITY ATTEST: FL: fm STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I. LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No.'4089 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 26th day of December, 1979, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 2nd 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. 4089 on'the 2nd day of January, 1980. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official r seal of the City of Anaheim this 2nd day of January, 1980. "M:a� gCA&t F--:� — 2 CITY .CLERK OF THE .CI F ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LINDA D. ROBERTS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4089 and was published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the ilth day of January, 1980.