HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance #3412 ORDINANCE NO. 3412 `
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH
AMENDING CHAPTER 9.20 OF THE HUNTINGTON BEACH MUNICIPAL
CODE RELATING TO PICKETING OF PRIVATE RESIDENCES
The City Council of the City of Huntington Beach does hereby ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 9.20.030 of the Huntington Beach Municipal Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
9.20.030 Picketing of private residences. In enacting this section, the City Council finds
as follows:
(a) Protecting the well-being, tranquility, and privacy of the homes of residents of the
City is a significant governmental interest.
(b) A special benefit of the privacy all residents enjoy within their homes is the
ability to avoid intrusions and unwanted speech.
(c) Picketing which targets the dwellings of specific residents of the City is an
inherent and offensive intrusion on residential privacy.
(d) Picketing before or about dwellings obstructs and interferes with the free and safe
use of public sidewalks and public streets.
(e) The purpose of this section is to protect and preserve the well-being, tranquility
and privacy of the home by ensuring the residents of the City are free from
picketing directed specifically at them.
{f) This section is enacted for the further purpose of protecting the free and safe use
of public sidewalks and streets.
It is unlawful for any person to engage in picketing within 50 feet of a residence or
dwelling of any individual, where such picketing is focused or targeted against that
residence, dwelling or individual.
Violations of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor punishable by fine or
imprisonment, or both. No fine imposed pursuant to this section for any single violation
thereof shall exceed Five Hundred dollars (S500), nor shall imprisonment exceed six (6)
months for each violation hereof and each day that any such separate violation continues
shall constitute a separate violation.
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SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a
regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of March , 1999.
Mayor
ATTEST:
Z APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Clerk
ity Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED:
INITIATED AND AP P ED.
City A1ininistra�
Police Chi
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Ord. No. 3412
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss:
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH }
I, CONNIE BROCKWAY, the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the
City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of 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 February1999, and was again
read to said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 1st day of
March, 1999, and was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority
of all the members of said City Council.
AYES: Julien, Garofalo, Green, Dettloff, Harman, Sullivan
NOES: Bauer
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
1,Connie Brockway 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 published in the Independent on
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In accordance«ith the City Charter of said City City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
Connie Brockwa City Clerk of the City Council of the City
Deputy City Clerk of Huntington Beach, California
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