[Ord. #58-019, § 1; 1958 Code § 3.41]
As used in this section:
Shall mean advertising structures and signs.
Shall mean a structure of any kind or character erected or
maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, on which any poster,
bill, printing, painting, or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever
may be placed, including statuary.
Shall mean a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting
lands have no right or easement of access 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.
Shall mean a section or sections of a freeway which is now,
or hereafter may be, improved by the planting of at least on one (1)
side of the freeway right-of-way, of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers,
or ornamental vegetation which shall require reasonable maintenance.
Planting for the purposes 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.
Shall mean any card, cloth, metal, painted 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.
The verb "to place" and any of its variances, as applied
to advertising displays shall mean and include the maintaining and
the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking,
nailing, gluing, stitching, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing,
or making visible, any advertising displays on or to the ground, or
any tree, bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure, or thing.
Exclusions from definition of "advertising structure" or
"sign."
Neither "advertising structure" nor "sign," as used in this
section shall include:
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 structures required or
authorized by law or by Federal, State or municipal authority.
[Ord. #58-019, § 2; 1958 Code § 3.42]
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 advertising display is designed
to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on such landscaped section
of a freeway.
[Ord. #58-019, § 3; Ord. #65-02, § 1;
1958 Code § 3.43]
The provisions of subsection 8-16.2 of this chapter shall not apply to any of the following listed advertising displays:
a.
To advertise a sale or lease of the property on which the advertising
display is placed;
b.
To designate the name of the owner or occupant of the premises upon
which the advertising display is placed or to identify such premises;
c.
To advertise the business conducted or goods manufactured or produced,
or services rendered upon the property upon which the advertising
display is placed.
[Ord. #58-019, § 4; 1958 Code § 3.44]
Any advertising structure or sign which is now, or hereafter may be, in violation of the provisions of subsection 8-16.2 of this chapter, shall be removed within one (1) year from the effective date[1] of subsection 8-16.2, or within one (1) year 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 the section or sections shall have been changed from a freeway to a landscaped freeway, whichever is later.
[1]
Editor's Note: The original ordinance from which this subsection
is derived was passed and adopted on June 7, 1958.
