ORDINANCE 6104050
ORDINANCE NO. 610
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 7 OF "EL
SEGUNDO CITY CODE, 1958" BY ADDING THERE-
TO, REGULATIONS RELATING TO ADVERTISING
DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO LANDSCAPED FREEWAYS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Sections 7. 1 through 7.4 of Chapter 7,
captioned, "Billboards, Signboards - Advertising Displays Adjacent to
Landscaped Freeways," of "The Code of the City of El Segundo, Califor-
nia, 1958," shall be, and the same are hereby added, so as to read as
follows:
"CHAPTER 7.
BILLBOARDS, SIGNBOARDS - ADVERTISING
DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO LANDSCAPED
FREEWAYS.
"Sec. 7.1. DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as
follows:
(a) ADVERTISING STRUCTURE. Refers to a struc-
ture of any kind or character erected or maintained for out-
door 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, painted
or wooden sign of any character, placed for outdoor adver-
tising 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 structures" nor "sign ", as
used in this chapter includes:
1. Official notices issued by a court or public body or
officer;
2. Notices posted by any public officer in performance
of a public duty, or by any person in giving legal notice;
3. Directional, warning, or information signs or struc-
tures 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
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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 High-
ways Code of the State of California.
(f) TO PLACE. The verb "to place" and any of its vari-
ants as applied to advertising displays includes the maintain-
ing and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing,
tacking, mailing, 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 now, or hereafter may be, improved by the
planting of at least on one side of the freeway right of way, of
lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental vegetation
which shall require reasonable maintenance.
Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic
safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or traffic noise
abatement, shall not change the character of a freeway to a
landscaped freeway.
"Sec. 7.2. ADVERTISING DISPLAYS ADJACENT 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 herein, if the adver-
tising display is designed to be viewed primarily by persons
traveling on such landscaped section of a freeway.
"Sec. 7. 3. EXEMPT ADVERTISING DISPLAYS.
The provisions of Section 7. 2 of this Chapter shall not
apply to any of the following listed advertising structures or
signs used exclusively:
(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 identify 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.
"Sec. 7.4. REMOVAL OF PROHIBITED DISPLAYS.
Any advertising structure or sign which is now, or here-
after may be, in violation of the provisions of Section 7. 2 shall
be removed within three (3) years from the effective date of
this ordinance or within three (3) years from the date when the
project for the landscaping of a section or sections of a freeway
shall have been completed or accepted, and the character of said
section or sections shall have been changed from a freeway to a
landscaped freeway, whichever is later. "
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SECTION 2. That this ordinance shall become effective
at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the final passage and
adoption thereof.
SECTION 3. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pass-
age and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered
in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a minute of
the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting at which
the same is passed and adopted; and shall, within fifteen days after the
passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in
the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, pub-
lished and circulated within said City of E1 Segundo and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
Passed, approved and adopted this 8th day of July ,
1963.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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Mayor of the City of egun o, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, j
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, )
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, o a , ,Eunice iJo o�re� son. , o a , o 0 0 0 . City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
Cal ifornia, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No, Al Qo , o 0 o o ,
is a full , true and correct original of Ordinance No. 0 610 0 0 0 0 , of the said City of El
Segundo, California, entitled:
" AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 7 OF "EL
SEGUNDO CITY CODE, 1958" BY ADDING THERE-
TO, REGULATIONS RELATING TO ADVERTISING
DISPLAYS ADJACENT TO LANDSCAPED FREEWAYS.";
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular
meeting of the said Council held on the ... ath, ... day of...... JWy ....... 19. B3 , . ,
and that the some was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
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I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the
Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1610111
was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council
of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation,
printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so pub-
1 ished therein on the following date, to wit:. s 11114111111111411111114 41111111111111
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City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California.
(SEAL)
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Deputy
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) as
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
JUDITH .!,I Y
.................. . being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America,
over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the ............
.___principal clerk
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Fditot~of EL SEOUNDO HERALD. a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in
the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and
circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the
publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times
herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4480 of the Political
Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper is published for the
dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a bona fide
subscription list of payir_g subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein
referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular
class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades,
callings, race; or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it
at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or
otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, eallings, races or denomin-
ations, or any of such chases, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations.
That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page ............ numbered
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hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full -true and
correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as
published; that the same was met and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of
the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing
and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution
or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the ...................... Ord in anCc....'N ) .....J1.
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of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news-
paper at least ......... �-............ week by ... ............................... consecutive publication ......... commencing on the
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larly issued, to -wit: ... ........... ......................................
July 1R, 1963
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City clerk of the City of El Segundo, County
of Los Angeles, State of California.
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Deputy City Clerk of said City.
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