Any person, governmental agency, department or instrumentality
having possession or control of any of the facilities, plants or utility
properties enumerated in this chapter, may post, at each entrance
to any structure devoted to any use so enumerated, at each entrance
to any fenced or enclosed area devoted to any such use, and at intervals
of not more than three hundred feet around any area devoted to such
use, substantial signs not less than one square foot in area, displaying
prominently in addition to such other information as may be deemed
desirable, the words "TRESPASSING-LOITERING-FORBIDDEN BY LAW" in legible
letters not less than two inches in height; provided, however, that
any public waiting room, dining room, office or other portion of any
such structure or premises to which general public access is required
in the normal use and operation thereof, or where materials are delivered
to or received by the public, shall not be so posted.
(Prior code § 14.23)
The "posted boundary" of any area shall be a line running from
sign to sign, and such line need not conform to the legal boundary
or legal description of any lot, parcel or acreage of land.
(Prior code § 14.23)
The places which may be so posted are the following:
A.
Every
airport, and every plant, field and structure used for the manufacture,
assembling or testing of aircraft;
B.
Every
tank farm, refinery, compressor plant or absorption plant, marine
terminal, pipeline pumping station and reservoir, used for the bulk
treatment, bulk handling or bulk storage of petroleum or petroleum
products;
C.
Every
reservoir, dam, pumping station, aqueduct, main canal or pipeline
of a public water system;
D.
Every
reservoir, dam, generating plant, receiving station, distributing
station and transmission line of a company or agency furnishing electrical
energy;
E.
Every
gas generating plant, compressor plant, gas holder, gas tank and gas
main used for the production, storage and distribution of gas;
F.
Every
plant or vital part thereof or other principal property essential
to rendering telephone or telegraph service;
G.
Every
radio broadcasting central plant or station;
H.
Every
railroad bridge or tunnel;
I.
Every
plant for the bulk storage of dynamite, giant powder, gunpowder or
other explosive.
(Prior code § 14.23)
When any such premises is posted as provided in this chapter,
it is unlawful for any person to go upon or to remain upon any place
within the posted boundary of any such premises, or to enter or to
remain in any such posted structure without having upon his or her
person the express written consent of the person, department or agency
lawfully in possession or control thereof.
(Prior code § 14.23)
It is unlawful for any person to loiter in the immediate vicinity
of any premises posted as provided in this chapter while having in
his or her possession any explosive, tool or device of whatever character
capable of doing harm or damage to any structure, machinery, equipment
or other property of a similar or dissimilar character, installed
or located upon such posted premises or area.
(Prior code § 14.23)
No person shall tear down, deface or destroy, or cause to be
torn down, defaced or destroyed, any sign placed or posted under the
provisions of this chapter without the consent of the person, governmental
agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control
of the premises on which such sign has been erected.
(Prior code § 14.23; 89-16)
This chapter does not apply to any entry in the course of duty
of any peace officer, nor to any person traversing an established
and existing public sidewalk, street or highway.
(Prior code § 14.23)
