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ORDINANCE 1305ORDINANCE NO. 1305 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE, 1997 EDITION, REPEALING CHAPTER 16.24 OF, AND ADDING CHAPTER 16.24 TO, THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE SIGN CODE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Chapter 16.24 of the El Segundo Municipal Code is repealed in its entirety. SECTION 2. Chapter 16.24 is added to the El Segundo Municipal Code to read as follows: Chapter 16.24 BILLBOARDS AND SIGNS 16.24.010 ESTABLISHED. The 1997 Edition of the Uniform Sign Code, promulgated and published by the International Conference of Building Officials, one copy of each 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 is amended by changing, adding, or deleting the chapters, articles, sections and portions of sections designated in 16.24.030 through 16.24.070. 16.24.030 SECTION 102 AMENDED - PURPOSE AND SCOPE. 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." ORDINANCE NO. 1305 ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE 1997 EDITION PAGE NO. 1 16.24.040 SECTION 103 AMENDED - ENFORCEMENT. Section 103.3 is amended to read as follows: "Section 103.3. Board of Appeals. In order to determine the suitability of alternate materials and construction and to provide for reasonable interpretations of the provisions of this Code, there shall be and there is hereby created a Board of Appeals, consisting of five members, composed of the Mayor and the other members of the City Council. Said members shall hold their respective members on said Board of Appeals by reason of, and concurrently with, their terms of service as Council members and shall cease to be such members upon their ceasing to be such Council members. The Building Official shall be the Secretary to the Board. The Board may adopt reasonable rules and regulations for conducting its investigations and shall render all its decisions and findings on contested matters, in writing to the Building Official, with a duplicate copy thereof to any appellant or contestant affected by any such decision or finding, and may recommend to the City Council such new legislation, if any, as is consistent therewith. Three members of the Board shall constitute a quorum. The Mayor shall be the presiding officer of the Board and in his absence the Board shall select a temporary chairman. Notices of meetings of the Board shall be given by at least 72 hours notice and delivered to each member personally or by registered mail; provided, however, that any meeting of the Board shall be legal for any purpose if the written consent of all of the members of the Board to such meeting is executed and filed in the records of the Board. The Board shall have the right, subject to such limits as the City Council may prescribe by resolution, to employ at the cost and expense of the City, such qualified individuals as the Board, in its discretion, may deem reasonably necessary in order to assist it in its investigations and in making its findings and decisions. There shall be a $250.00 charge at the time of filing an appeal of any orders, decisions, or determinations made by the Building Official relative to the application and interpretation of this Code. The $250.00 filing fee shall be refundable in full should the appellant prevail in a decision by the Board. The appeal shall be taken by filing a written notice of appeal, in letter form, to the Board of Appeals." 16.24.050 SECTION 203 AMENDED - DEFINITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS. Section 203 is amended by adding the following definition: ORDINANCE NO. 13 0 5 ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE 1997 EDITION PAGE NO. 2 "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 five hundred square feet or more. A signboard is a billboard." 16.24.60 SECTION 301 AMENDED — PERMITS REQUIRED. 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." "16.24.070 PERMIT ISSUANCE. Upon the granting of an application for the permit required by Section 16.24.060, the City Council shall direct the Director of Planning and 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: `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 12:01 a.m., July 1, 1999 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 (15) 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, published and circulated within said City of El Segundo and which is hereby designated for that purpose. ORDINANCE NO. 1305 ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE 1997 EDITION PAGE NO. 3 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6th day of April 1999. r� �r a� Mike Gordon, May ATTEST: STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ) I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1305 was duly introduced by said City Council at a regular meeting held on the 161h day of March, 1999, and duly passed and adopted by said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor, and attested to by the City Clerk, all at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 6th day of April, 1999, and the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Gordon, Jacobs, McDowell, Gaines, Wernick NOES: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None Cindy M `tesen, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: s ` Mark ensle ,' ity Attorney ORDINANCE NO. 13 0 5 ADOPTING THE UNIFORM SIGN CODE 1997 EDITION PAGE NO. 4