A. 
Order of the Planning Director. When deemed necessary by the Planning Director in order to maintain the safety of persons or property, the following standards may also be imposed upon vacant real property:
1. 
Access Points. All windows, doors, and other open access features to the structures on the real property shall be boarded up and secured to prohibit entry; and/or
2. 
Fencing. The property shall be fenced on all sides with a properly permitted chain link fence or other type of secure fencing at a minimum height of six feet from grade, or greater, in compliance with the Huntington Beach Zoning and Subdivision Ordinance. The fence shall be properly posted with no trespassing signs, and kept clear of all other signs, except lawfully installed real estate signs for the lease or sale of the property and signs identifying ownership of the property or fencing.
B. 
Compliance and Maintenance Responsibility. Compliance and maintenance with the standards contained in this section shall be at the sole cost of the responsible party for the vacant real property and shall not limit the remedies or recovery of costs for the abatement of any vacant real property found to be in violation of this Code.
C. 
Failure to Obey Order—Misdemeanor. Every occupant and owner of real property who fails to obey an order as generally outlined in this section is guilty of a misdemeanor with respect to each day the occupant fails to obey the order.
(3509-10/01)
Any accumulation of trash, junk, debris, rubbish or refuse on any real property in this City, unless otherwise permitted by law, is declared to be a nuisance.
(1668-9/71)
It shall be the duty of the Director of Planning to notify in the manner hereinafter provided, the occupant and owner of any real property in this City to eradicate, remove and abate, within 10 days from the giving of such notice, any accumulation of trash, junk, debris, rubbish or refuse from such real property, and that upon failure to do so within such 10 days, this City will cause the trash, junk, debris, rubbish or refuse to be removed and abated, and that the cost of such removal and abatement will be made a special assessment against that property, to be collected at the same time and in the same manner and subject to the same penalties as municipal taxes.
(1668-9/71, 2217-10/77, 3551-5/02)
Such notice shall be given in writing, by serving personally upon any occupant and upon the owner of any real property, each a copy of such notice, directed to the owner, or if the owner be a nonresident of the City, by serving any occupant personally, and by mailing by registered mail, a like copy in writing to the owner at his or her last known address as shown by the last assessment of the tax assessor of Orange County. If said address appears thereon, or if no address appears thereon, the same shall be addressed to him or her at the City of Huntington Beach, and if there be no such address or occupant, by posting a copy of the notice in a conspicuous place, upon each lot or legal subdivision of the property, and serving a copy upon the owner as hereinafter provided.
(1668-9/71)
At the date and time so set by the notice, if the accumulation of trash, junk, debris, rubbish or refuse is not removed from the property, the Director of Planning shall thereupon report the delinquency to the City Council with an estimate of the probable cost of doing the work. Such matters shall be set for hearing before the City Council and not less than 10 days' notice of such hearing shall be given to the occupant and owner of such real property in the manner provided by Section 8.36.040.
(1668-9/71, 2217-10/77, 3551-5/02)
The City Council, after such public hearing, upon a finding of the existence of debris, rubbish or refuse, shall order the Director of Planning to do said work, at the expense of the owner of the property, and provide for temporary payment of the same with City funds.
(1668-9/71, 2217-10/77, 3551-5/02)
At the completion of the work, the Director of Planning must prepare a statement of the proceedings, reciting the existence of the nuisance, the description of the property, the names of the owners and occupants, if known, the giving of notices, the holding of the public hearing, the making of the order by the City Council, the doing of the work and the cost thereof.
(1668-9/71, 2217-10/77, 3551-5/02)
Every occupant and owner of real property who maintains, allows or permits any nuisance defined in this chapter after notice to abate as provided in this chapter, is guilty of a separate misdemeanor with respect to each day that the nuisance continues, after said notice on each lot or parcel on which the nuisance shall exist.
(1668-9/71)
No person shall affix to any vehicle, or cause to be affixed to any vehicle, any notice, paper, placard, bill, poster, card, sticker, banner, sign, advertisement, or other device designed to attract the attention of the public for the purpose of advertising any merchandise, commodity, property, business, service, act or skill offered, sold or rendered for hire, reward, price, trade or profit.
(3084-12/90)
No person shall distribute in or upon any private property any advertising matter except in the following manner:
A. 
By placing the same in a receptacle, clip, or other device designed or intended to receive advertising matter, when such receptacle, clip, or other device has been erected in a conspicuous place near the front door or front entrance or near the mailbox of any private property; or
B. 
If no such receptacle, clip, or other device has been erected as provided in this section, then by handing the advertising matter to an occupant of the property, or placing the same upon the porch or vestibule of a house or building on the private property, provided that, in the latter case, the advertising matter is wrapped, tied, folded, or otherwise so prepared or placed that it will not be blown loose by the winds and provided that a previous day's distribution of advertising matter has been removed.
(3084-12/90)
The City Manager, through designee, may remove or cause the removal of and properly discard any handbill placed in a manner prohibited by this section. The person responsible for the distribution of any such handbill shall be liable to the City for the cost of removal thereof, in addition to any other penalty provided for by law.
(3084-12/90)
In any civil or criminal action filed against any person for violation of this chapter, proof that the handbill in question contains the name of or otherwise identifies such person or such person's principal, agents, representative or employer shall constitute a rebuttable presumption that the person so named or identified caused such handbill to be distributed in the location from which it was removed.
(3084-12/90)