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HONORABLE PAYOR ~ Ill/l/BI/RS OF ~BE CItY COUNCIL SEP 2 6 1988
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O~IN~CE ~~ING THE ~STIN CITY CODE ~LATIVE ~
PO~ITIC~ SIGNS
Enclosed herewith is a proposed Ordinance amending the Tustin
City Code relative to political signs which I recommend the
Council adopt so as to conform to the current decisional law
regarding political signs. ~~.,
City Attorney
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:~KE 8~ WOODRUFF
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ORDINANCE NO. 1012
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
~HE CITY OF TUSTIN, CALIFORNIA,
.AMENDING THE TUSTIN CITY CODE
RELATIVE TO POLITICAL SIGNS .
The City Council of the City o~ Tustin does hereby
ordain that Section 9483, Political Signs, of the Tustin
City Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
"9483 POLITICAL SIGNS
Political signs having to do with any issue, candidate
or group of candidates in any district, municipal, county,
state or federal election shall be permitted subject to the
following provisions:
(1) No person shall install or maintain or cause to be
installed or maintained any sign which simulates
or imitates in size, color, lettering or design
any traffic sign or signal, or which makes use of
" "LOOK" "DANGER, or any other
words "STOP, , , ,
words, phrases, symbols, or characters in such a
manner as to interfere with, mislead or confuse
traffic.
(2) Unless authorized by specific approval by the City
Council, no person except a public officer in
performance of a public duty, shall affix by any
means any form of sign on any public property or
right-of-way, including a street, median, island,
parkway (except as permitted below), sidewalk,
traffic signal, traffic signal post, traffic sign
post, traffic control sign post, any other traffic
control device, utility pole or tree.
(3) It shall be unlawful for any person to exhibit,
post or display, or cause to be exhibited, posted,
or displayed upon any sign, anything of an ob-
scene, indecent or immoral nature or unlawful
activity.
(4) Signs consisting of any moving, swinging, rotat-
ing, flashing, blinking, scintillating, fluctuat-
ing or otherwise animated light are prohibited.
(5) The permission of the property owner is required
for signs on'private property.
(6) Political signs are only authorized in parkways
(defined as the area between the curb line and the
private property line), subject to the following
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~KE 8~ WOODRUFF
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restrictions, procedures and conditions:
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(a) No more than three (3) political signs shall
be permitted in the parkway abutting any one
parcel of property.
(b) Signs shall be limited to four (4) square
feet in size and four (4) feet in height.
(c) Signs shall require the permission of the
abutting property owner.
(d) Signs shall not be attached in any manner to
any traffic signal, traffic signal post, traffic
sign post, traffic control sign post, any other
traffic control device, utility pole, or tree or
placed so as to impede pedestrian walkways or con-
stitute a hazard to or endanger persons using the
sidewalks.
(e) Signs shall be located so as not to obstruct
the vision of motorists and shall be prohibited in
any area designated by the City Engineer as a
hazardous area.
(f) Any person, party or group posting such signs
shall be liable to the City of Tustin, private
property owners and the general public for any
injury to persons or property resulting from the
placement and maintenance of such signs.
(7) Signs in violation of this Code shall be removed
by the City and destroyed if not claimed by the
owner within forty-eight (48) hours and payment
made to the City for the direct costs incurred in
the removal of such signs.
(8) Any person who intentionally defaces, obliterates,
tears down, or destroys any political sign
installed in accordance with the provisions of
this Code shall be charged pursuant to the General
Penalty provisions of this Code."
PASSSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Tustin, California, held on the
day of , 1988.
ATTEST'
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MAYOR
CITY CLERK
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