HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 152 (1961)730
ORDINANCE NO. 152
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TUSTIN,
CALIFORNIA, REGULATING ADVERTISING
DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO LANDSCAPED FREEWAYS.
The City Council of the City of Tustin does
ordain as follows:
Section 1. Definitions. As used in this
article, certain terms are definited as follows:
(a) "ADVERTISING STRUCTURE" Refers to a
structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for
outdoor advertising purposes on which any poster, bill, print-
ing, painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever
may be placed, including statuary.
(b) "SIGN~ Refers to any card, cloth, metal,
painting or wooden sign of any character, placed for outdoor
advertising purposes, on or to the ground, or any tree, wall,
bush, rock, fence, building, structure, or thing, either
publicly or privately owned, other than an advertising structure.
(c) Neither "advertising structure" nor "sign"
as used in this article includes:
Official notices issued by a court or
public body or officer:
Notices posted by any public officer in
performance of a public duty, or by any
person in giving legal notice;
Directional, warning or information signs
or structures required or authorized by
law or by federal, state or municipal
authority.
(d) "ADVERTISING DISPLAY". Refers to advertising
structures and to signs.
(e) "FREEWAY". The term "freeway" shall be
deemed to mean a highway in respect to which the owners of
abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or
from their abutting lands or in respect to which such owners
have only limited or restricted right or easement of access,
and which is declared to be such in compliance with the
Streets and Highways Code of the State of California.
(f) "TO PLACE". The verb "to place" and any of its
variants as applied to advertising displays includes the
- maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, paint-
ing, printing, tacking, nailing, glueing,~stitching, carving,
~ or otherwise fastening, affixing, or making visible, any
advertising display on or to the ground, or any tree, bush,
rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure or thing.
(g) "LANDSCAPED FREEWAY". The term "Landscaped
Freeway"-shall be deemed to mean a section or sections of
a freeway which is how, or hereafter may be, improved by
the planting on at least. one side of the freeway right of
· way, lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental
vegetation which shall require reasonable_maintenance.
'-~ ~ .Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control,
I~ traffic safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards,
or traffic noise abatement, shall not change the character
of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.
Section 2. Advertising Displays A~jacent to Land-
scaped Freeways. No advertising displays shall be placed or
maintained on property adjacent to a section of freeway which
has been, or hereafter may be, landscaped as defined h~rein,
if the advertising display is designed to be viewed primarily
by persons traveling on such landscaped section of a freeway.
Section ]. Exempt Advertising ~isplays. The provisions
of Section 2 of this ordinance shall not apply to any of the
following listed advertising structures or signs used exclu-
sively:
(a) To advertise the sale or lease of the property
on which said advertising display is placed;
(b) To designate the name of the owner or occupant of
the premises upon which said advertising display is placed or
to identy such premises;
(c) To advertise the business .conducted or goods manu
factured or produced, or services rendered upon-the property
upon which said advertising display is placed,
Section 4. Removal of Prohibited Displays. Any ad-
vertising structure or sign which is now, or hereafter may be,
in violation of the provisions of Section 2, shall be removed
withis three (3) years from the effective date of this Ordinance,
or with'in three (3) years from the date when the project for the
landscaping of a section or sections of a freeway sha~l have been
completed or accepted, and the character of said sectgon or sections
shall have been changed from a freeway to a landscaped freeway,
whichever is later.
Section i. SeverabilitI. If any section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this Ordinance is,
for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional, by
the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this Ordinance.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of theCity
Council of the City of Tustin held on the 15th day of May,1961.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
EI:~K
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF O~ANGE, )
CITY OF TUSTIN, ) SS.
RUTH C. ~OE', 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 was duly and regularly introduced and
read at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the
1st day of May, 1961, and was given its second reading and
duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting held on the
l~th day of May, 1961, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Kidd, Humeston, Byrd, Mack, Sheridan
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
City of Tustin, California