HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2292 ORDINANCE NO. 2292
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE
AND MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS
THEREOF FOR THE PURPOSE OF ALLOWING PLACEMENT
OF BUS BENCHES WITH ADVERTISING UNDER A FRANCHISE
AGREEMENT
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does
ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. The Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended by repealing Chapter 12. 36 entitled "Benches" in its
entirety, with the exception of Section 12. 36. 010 and 12. 36 . 020.
Section 12. 36. 020 is hereby amended to read as follows :
12. 36. 020 Franchise . No person shall install or maintain
any bench or transit shelter which incorporates advertising
panels on any street , unless such benches or transit shelters
are installed in accordance with an exclusive franchise granted
pursuant to the City Charter. The provisions of this section
shall not be construed to prohibit the installation and main-
tenance of benches or transit shelters without advertising
panels on any street, provided that a permit for each bench or
transit shelter has been obtained pursuant to Section 12. 12. 020
of the municipal code.
Any bench which is in violation of the provisions of this
section at the time of adoption of this ordinance shall be removed
within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this ordinance .
SECTION 2. The Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby
amended by amending Section 9760. 29 thereof to read as follows :
9760. 29 MISCELLANEOUS SIGNS AND ACTIVITIES PROHIBITED.
The following miscellaneous signs and activities
are prohibited:
(a) Use of Certain Attention Getting Devices . No persons
shall use or operate a loudspeaker, sound amplifier, stereopticon,
or motion picture machine in connection with any sign or sign
structure.
(b) Use of Live Models or Searchlights. No persons shall
use live animals , human beings , or searchlights in connection
with any sign or sign structure.
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(c) Use of Flashing or Pulsating Parts . No person or
persons shall display any sign which incorporates in any manner
any flashing, moving, pulsating, or intermittent lighting, except
public service signs such as time or temperature units unless
approved as part of a planned sign program.
(d) Erection of Signs on Public Property or Public Rights-
of-Way Prohibited. No person or persons shall erect,
place or display, or cause any such act or acts to be done, any
sign or sign structure in, under, on or over any public property
or any public right-of-way, except as provided herein. The pro-
visions of this subsection shall not prohibit the posting of any
sign required by the laws of this State .
The provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit the
placement of bus benches or transit shelters which incorporate
advertising panels within public rights-of-way, provided such
bus benches or transit shelters are placed in accordance with
an exclusive franchise for either such bus benches or such transit
shelters ,or both, granted pursuant to the City Charter.
(e) Obstruction by Signs . No person or persons shall place
a sign or sign structure in a manner that may confuse or obstruct
the view or interpretation of any official traffic sign, signal,
or safety device by vehicular or pedestrian traffic .
(f) Exterior or Interior Illumination. Any exterior or
interior illumination used in conjunction with a sign or sign
structure shall be designed so that it does not directly project
onto adjacent property in any residential district or onto a
public thoroughfare.
(g) Portable Signs . Portable signs shall be prohibited,
including signs affixed to automobiles , trucks , trailers or other
vehicles where such signs primarily solicit patronage to a specific
business through parking such vehicles in the close proximity of
the business during business hours for the purpose of specifically
directing patronage to such business , and the use and practice in
parking such vehicle with the affixed sign to achieve stationary
signing. This section does not purport to regulate customary
advertising on vehicles in the flow of commerce.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days
after its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and cause same to be published within fifteen
days after adoption in the Huntington Beach News , a weekly news-
paper of general circulation, printed and published in Huntington
Beach, California.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach, at a regular meeting thereof held on the 3rd
day of July 1978.
Mayor
ATTEST:
Alicia M. Wentworth
City Clerk
Deputy City Clerk
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
ty Administrator Ci y Attorney MT
INITIATED AND APPROVED
AS TO CONTENT:
Planning i e or
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Ord. No. 2292
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected, qualified City
Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the whole number
of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven
that the foregoing ordinance was read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 19th day of June
19 78 and was again read to said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 3rd day of July 19 78 , and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Pattinson, Thomas, MacAllister, Bailey, Mandic, Siebert, Shenkman
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
None
Alicia M. Wentworth
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
BY:
Deputy'
R, Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of
Huntington Beach and ern-^fficio Clerk of the City
Council, do h °eby cer11` t 'his ordinance has
been pu 'shad in the/1 n reach (yews on
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In acc h t�� - city.
City Clerk
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Deputy City Clerk