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ORDINANCE NO. 2438
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING THE HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE
BY AMENDING SUBSECTION (d) OF SECTION 9760.29
TO PERMIT THE PLACING OF ADVERTISING ON TRASH
CAN RECEPTACLES
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1 . The Huntington Beach Ordinance Code is hereby
amended by amending subsection (d) of Section 9760.29 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 .
( c) Use of Flashing or Pulsating Parts . No person or per-
sons 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 ap-
proved 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 provisions
of this subsection shall not prohibit the posting of any sign re-
quired by the laws of this state.
The provisions of this subsection shall not prohibit the
placement of trash receptacles and bicycle racks on publicly-
operated beaches and parks , bus benches or transit shelters
within public rights-of-way which incorporate advertising panels ,
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provided such trash receptacles and bicycle racks on publicly-
operated beaches and parks , bus benches or transit shelters
are placed in accordance with an exclusive franchise for such
trash receptacles , bicycle racks , bus benches or transit shel-
ters , 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 in-
terior 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, in-
cluding signs affixed to automobiles , trucks , trailers or other
vehicles where such signs primarily solicit patronage to a spe-
cific business through parking such vehicles in the close proxi-
mity 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 com-
merce.
SECTION 2. 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 Independent, a news-
paper of general circulation.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
in
Huntington Beach at a dgwp dmeeting thereof held on the 8th
day of July 1980.
Mayor
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk V,)%11r City Attorney
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Ord. No. 2438
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 16th day of June
19 Rf) , and was again read to said City Council at a regular ad.iourned
meeting thereof held on the 8th day of July. 19 80 and
was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of
all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
Thomas, Finley, Bailey, MacAllister, Mandic, Kelly
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Pattinson
City Clerk an ex-o£ficio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
i, Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City sf
Huntington Beach and ex•Nfkio Clerk of the City
Count« do hereby certify that a synapsis of this
ordinv..e has been published in the Huntington
P,:ach ir>• —.dent on
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in accaF4iance with .e City Charter of said City.
City Clerk
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