HomeMy WebLinkAbout97-29 Regulating Handbills Deposited on Vehicles and ResidencesORDINANCE NO.. 97-29
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS
9-136 AND 9-137 OF THE COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL
CODE REGULATING HANDBILLS DEPOSITED ON
VEHICLES AND RESIDENCES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 9-136 is amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 9-136. Placing In Or Upon Vehicle Prohibited.
No person, either directly or indirectly, shall distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter, or cast any handbill or any other printed or written
advertising matter in or upon any motor vehicle or other vehicle where
the owner or occupant of such vehicle has expressed an objection to
such distribution; the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to
prohibit the handing of any handbill or any other printed or written
advertising matter to the owner or other occupant of any motor
vehicle or other vehicle."
Section 2. Section 9-137 of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
"Sec. 9-137. Distributing on Private Property Prohibited.
No person, either directly or indirectly, shall distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter, or cast any handbill or any other printed or written
advertising matter in or upon any private yard, grounds, walk, porch,
steps, mail box, vestibule, driveway, house, residence, building or
other private property where the owner or occupant of such property
has expressed an objection to such distribution."
Section 3. Severability.
If any chapter, article, section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause,
phrase, or portion of this Ordinance, or the application thereof to any person, is for
any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portion of this Ordinance or its application to other persons. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each chapter,
article, section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more subsections, subdivisions, sentences,
clauses, phrases, or portions of the application thereof to any person, be declared
invalid or unconstitutional. No portion of this Ordinance shall supersede any local,
State, or Federal law, regulation, or codes dealing with life safety factors.
Section 4. Publication.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect thirty (30)
days from and after its passage and, before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after
its passage, shall be published once in the NEWPORT BEACH -COSTA MESA PILOT,
a newspaper of general circulation printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa,
or, in the alternative, the City Clerk may cause to be published a summary of this
Ordinance and a certified copy of the text of this Ordinance shall be posted in the
office of the City Clerk five (5) days prior to the date of adoption of this Ordinance,
and within fifteen (15) days after adoption, the .City Clerk shall cause to be
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published the aforementioned summary and shall post in the office of the City Clerk
a certified copy of this Ordinance together with the names of the members of the
City Council voting for and against the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this Jotb day of 1997.
ATTEST:
City Cler f the
City of Co to Mesa
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APPROVEDMayor
•FORM:
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City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, MARY T. ELLIOTT, Deputy City Clerk and ex -officio clerk of the City
Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing
Ordinance No. 97-z9 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the 4�day of (9" . , 1997, and thereafter
passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council held on
the app'' day of c ro t , 1997, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 1�-u F FA (fZ i C k Sn "'JI ISOMERS
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the
City of Costa Mesa this ai yTday of 8e�t . , 1997.
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Deputyi y Clerk and ex -officio
Clerk oft e City Council of the
City of Costa Mesa