HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1012 (1988) 1 ORDINANCE NO. 1012
2 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
3 THE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING THE TUSTIN CITY CODE
4 RELATIVE TO POLITICAL SIGNS .
5
The City Council of the City of Tustin does hereby
6 ordain that Section 9483, Political Signs, of the Tustin
City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
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"9483 POLITICAL SIGNS
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Political signs having to do with any issue, candidate
9 or group of candidates in any district, municipal, county,
state or federal election shall be permitted subject to the
10 following provisions:
11 (1) No person shall install or maintain or cause to be
installed or maintained any sign which simulates
12 or imitates in size, color, lettering or design
any traffic sign or signal, or which makes use of
13 words "STOP," "LOOK " "DANGER," or any other
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words, phrases, symbols, or characters in'such a
14 manner as to interfere with, mislead or confuse
traffic.
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(2) Unless authorized by specific approval by the City
16 Council, no person except a public officer in
performance of a public duty, shall affix by any
'17 means any form of sign on any public property or
right-of-way, including a street, median, island,
18 parkway (except as permitted below),-sidewalk,
traffic signal, traffic signal post, traffic sign
19 post, traffic control sign post, any other traffic
control device, utility pole or tree.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit,
21 post or display, or cause to be exhibited, posted,
or displayed upon any sign, anything of an ob-
22 scene, indecent or immoral nature or unlawful
activity.
(4) Signs consisting of any moving, swinging, rotat-
24 ing, flashing, blinking, scintillating, fluctuat-
ing or otherwise animated light are prohibited.
(5) The permission of the property owner is required
26 for signs on private property.
27 (6) Political signs are only authorized in parkways
:=" (defined as the area between the curb line and the
28 private property line), subject to the following
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1 restrictions, procedures and conditions:
2 (a) No more than three (3) political signs shall
be permitted in the parkway abutting any one
5 parcel 'of property.
4 (b) Signs shall be limited to four -(4) square
feet in size and four (4) feet in height.
5
(c) Signs shall require the permission of the
6 abutting property owner.
7 (d) Signs shall not be attached in any manner to
any traffic signal, traffic signal post, traffic
8 sign post, traffic control sign post, any other
traffic control device, utility pole, or tree or
9 placed so as to impede pedestrian walkways or con-
stitute a hazard to or endanger persons using the
10 sidewalks.
11 (e) Signs shall be located so as not to obstruct
the vision of motorists and shall be prohibited in
12 any area designated by the City Engineer as a
hazardous area.
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(f) Any person, party or group posting such signs
14 shall be liable to the City of Tustin, private
property owners and the general public for any
15 injury to persons or property resulting from the-
placement and maintenance of such signs.
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(7) Signs in violation of this Code shall be' removed
17 by the City and destroyed if not claimed by the
owner within forty-eight (48) hours and payment
18 made to the City for the direct costs incurred in
the removal of such signs.
19
(8) Any person who intentionally defaces, obliterates,
20 tears down, or destroys any political sign
installed in accordance with the provisions of
21 this Code shall be charged pursuant to the General
. Penalty provisions of this Code."
PASSSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
25 Council of the City. of Tustin, California, held on the
7TH day of NOVEMBER , 1988.
25 MAYOR ATTEST:
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'TORNEYS AT LAW
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )-§ '-
CITY OF TUSTIN ):
MARY E. WYNN, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of
Tustin, California, does hereby certify that the whole number of the members of
the City Council of the City of Tustin is five; that the above and foregoing
Ordinance No. 1012 was duly and regularly introduced and read at a regular meeting
of the City C~6~'~il held on the 19th day of October, 1988, and was given its
second reading and duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting held on the 7th
day of November, 1988, by the following vote:
AYES : COUNCILPERSONS: Hoesterey, Kennedy, Edgar, Kelly, Prescott
NOES : COUNCILPERSONS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILPERSONS: None
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Summary Printed Tusti n News:
November 10, 1988
November 17, 1988