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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #2874 ORDINANCE NO. 2874 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH AMENDING HUNTINGTON BEACH ORDINANCE CODE SECTION 9610. 3 AND SECTION 9610. 4 (o) RELATING TO POLITICAL SIGNS The CityCouncil of the City of Huntington Beach does ordain Y g as follows : SECTION 1 . Section 9610. 3 is hereby amended to read as follows : 9610. 3 EXEMPT SIGNS. The following signs are exempt from permit requirements . (a) Governmental signs, notices or posters . (b) Real estate signs subject to the limitations specified in this article. (c ) Construction signs as defined by this article. (d) No trespassing signs as defined by this article and posted a minimum of one hundred (100 ) feet apart. (e ) Window signs as defined by this article and restricted to a minimum of twenty percent ( 20% ) of the window area. (f ) Oil operations signs pursuant to Title 15 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code. (g) Political signs, provided they do not pose affic or safety hazard, and are not erected more than forty-five (45) days prior to or removed more than fifteen (15) days after an election. Permission from the property owner shall be secured prior to the placement of such signs. SECTION 2. Section 9610. 4 subsection (o) is hereby amended to read as follows : 9610. 4 PROHIBITED SIGNS. The following signs are prohibited within the City of Huntington Beach. (a) Flashing, moving, pulsating, or intermittently lighted signs , including searchlights ; except public service signs such as those for time and temperature . 1 . (b) Signs which conflict with ant traffic control device due to color , wording, design, location, or illumination; or with the safe and efficient flow of traffic, both vehicular and pedestrian. (c ) Animals or human beings, live or simulated, utilized as signs. (d) Loudspeakers; or signs which emit sound, odor, or visible matter . (e ) Mechanical movement signs . (f ) Roof signs as defined by this article . (g) Projecting signs as defined by this article. (h) Changeable copy signs, including electronic readerboards ; except theatre marquees . ( i ) Banners, flags, kites, pennants, or balloons; except if permitted as temporary signs pursuant to Section 9610 .9 (a) . ( j ) Signs which constitute a nuisance or hazard due to their intensity of light . (k ) Billboards or advertising structures, including any off-site signs installed for the purpose of advertising a project, subject or business unrelated to the premises upon which the sign is located; except subdivision directional signs pursuant to Section 9610. 9 (c) . (1 ) Signs which no longer identify a bonafide business conducted on the premises . Such signs shall be removed by the owner of the sign within sixty ( 60 ) days of the business ' closing date . (m) Portable signs including "A-frame" signs and those of a similar nature which are not permanently attached to the ground or building. (n) Vehicular signs ; signs affixed to automobiles, trucks , trailers or other vehicles on private or public property for the basic purpose of advertising, identifying, or providing direction to a use or activity not related to the lawful use of the vehicle for delivering merchandise or rendering services . Any such vehicles which have as their primary purpose to serve as a non-moving sign display. (o) Signs on any public property or projecting within the public right-of-way, except those required by law, and political signs. This section shall not prohibit the placement of advertising panels on trash receptacles and bicycle racks in publicly operated beaches and parks or on bus benches and transit shelters within public rights-of-way, provided such facilities are placed in accordance with a franchise granted pursuant to city charter . 2. SECTION 3. This ordinance is effective upon adoption pursuant to Charter Section 500 (e) (1) . PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of adjourned 13th Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the day of October , 1986. Mayor ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Cier -� City Attorney REVIEG ND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED: City Administra or 3. Ord. No 2874 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) s s 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 6th day of October 19 86 , and was again read to said City Council at a regular adjourned meeting thereof held on the 13th day of October 19 86 , and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of more than a majority of all the members of said City Council. AYES: Councilmen: Kelly, MacAllister, Mandic, Bailey, Green, Thomas NOES: Councilmen: Finley ABSENT: Councilmen: None City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California I,Alicia M. Wentworth CITY CLERK of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council, do hereby certify that a synopsis of this ordinance has been publisher! In the Huntington peach Indeendcnt on ..:...... /..D...:.".:...... , ' Ina 'r&a sc with the City Char Lr :.f ALICIA M. WENTWORTH ......... .................................. City Clerk L. ,. . ... .. t)evuty.City Cleie rk.