ORDINANCE 1174ORDINANCE NO. 1174
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN
CODE, 1991 EDITION, REPEALING CHAPTER
16.24 OF, AND ADDING CHAPTER 16.24 TO,
THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO THE BILLBOARDS AND SIGN CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 16.24 of the E1 Segundo Municipal Code is
repealed in its entirety.
Section 2. Chapter 16.24 is added to the E1 Segundo Municipal
Code to read as follows:
Chapter 16.24
BILLBOARDS AND SIGNS
16.24.010 ESTABLISHED. The 1991 Edition of the Uniform Sign
Code, and the Administration portion thereof, promulgated and
published by the International Conference of Building Officials,
one copy of which has been filed, and is on file in the Office of
the City Clerk for public inspection, hereby is adopted with the
same force and effect as though set out herein in full.
16.24.020 CHANGES AND ADDITIONS TO CODES. The Uniform Sign
Code, and the Administration portion thereof, is amended by
changing, adding, or deleting the chapters, articles, sections and
portions of sections designated in 16.24.030 through 16.24.060.
16.24.030 PURPOSE AND SCOPE. Chapter 1, Section 102 is amended
to read as follows:
Section 102. This Chapter is intended to regulate the
construction, erection, alteration, repair and maintenance of all
signs and their supports in the city, except ground signs extending
not more than six feet above grade. This Chapter is not intended to
regulate the location or zone within which signs may be located;
any sign or billboard shall in addition to complying with the
requirements of this Chapter comply with the requirements of Title
20.
16.24.040 DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS. Chapter 2, Section
203 is amended by adding the following definition:
Section 203. "Billboard" means any sign erected for the
purpose of advertising a product, event, person or subject whether
or not related to the premises on which the sign is located and
containing a surface or display area of three hundred square feet
or more. A signboard is a billboard.
16.24.050 PERMITS REQUIRED. Chapter 3, Section 301 is amended
by adding the following:
Before any billboard or signboard may be erected upon any
premises within the city, application shall be first made to the
City Council for a permit to do so.
16.24.060 PERMIT ISSUANCE. Upon the granting of an application
for the permit required by Section 16.24.050, the City Council
shall direct the Director of Building Safety to issue a permit
therefor, showing among other matters thereon the person to whom
the same is issued, the character of the board to be erected, the
location upon which the same is to be erected and in addition to
any other matter thereon contained, shall be printed the following:
1
"The City Council reserves the right to revoke the within
permit at any time upon refunding to the holder thereof the pro
rata portion of the license fee paid therefor, whenever in the
discretion of the Council the public interest and necessity or
safety of the City demand that the same be removed," which right is
hereby expressly reserved to the City Council; Provided, however,
that no permit for any billboard or signboard shall be issued
unless the board is to be constructed of acceptable material for
frame supports, border and bracing with an advertising surface of
metal or other acceptable material.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective at midnight
on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the final passage
and adoption thereof.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage 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 E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, published and circulated within said City of
E1 Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this /day of 1991.
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City Clerk
(SEAL)
APPROVED.;
TO FORM `
City Attorne
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or of the C' y of E1 Segundo
California
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Ronald L. Hart, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, 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. 1174 is a full, true correct original
of ORDINANCE NO. 1174 of the said City of El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING
THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE, 1991 EDITION, REPEALING CHAPTER 16.24
OF, AND ADDING CHAPTER 16.24 TO, THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO THE BILLBOARDS AND SIGN CODE.
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the
Mayor or said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of
the said Council held on the 17TH DAY OF MARCH, 1992, and the same was so passed
and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Mayor Jacobson, Mayor ProTem Dannen
Councilmembers Cruikshank, West and Wise.
NOES: None
ABSTENTION: None
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. 1174
as duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said
City of El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published
and circulated within said City and that the same was so published therein on the
following day, to wit:
Ronald L. Hart
City Clerk of the
City of El Segundo, California
(SEAL)