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ORDINANCE NO. 71-23
3 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF COSTA MESA PROHIBITING THE PLACING OF SIGNS
4 AND ADVERTISING MATTER IN THE PUBLIC RIGHTS
OF WAY AND UTILITY COMPANY RIGHTS OF WAY,
5 MAKING PROVISIONS FOR THEIR REMOVAL AND
DISPOSITION.
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THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY
7 ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
8 SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
9 does hereby find and declare that Chppter VIII, Article 5, Sections
10 8500 through and including 8558, of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code
11 being the Costa Mesa Sign Ordinance, does not regulate the placing
12 of advertising signs or advertising matter on public property and
13 public rights-of-way or public utility sights -of -way.
14 City Council further finds and declares that the increased
15 practice of the use of signs and advertising matter on public
16 property rights-of-way and utility rights-of-way has begun to
17 create undue and unnecessary aesthetic deterioration.
18 City Council further finds and declares that misunderstand
19 ings and misuse of public rights-of-way and private property for
20 campaign sign purposes has resulted in unfair campaign practices
21 and has adversely affected the image of the City, the City Council,
22 and Council candidates.
23 City Council further finds and declares that unlimited use
24 of oversigned and garish or bizarre campaign posters upon public
25 rights-of-way and private property constitutes an unnecessary and
26 unreasonable hazard to the vehicle and pedestrian traffic upon the
27 public streets and rights-of-way within the City and constitutes
28 an unreasonable hazard to the health,safety and welfare of the
29 community.
30 Accordingly, there is enacted to the aforementioned
31 chapter the following sections to the Costa Mesa Municipal Code,
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SECTION 2. Section 8559. Erection of Signs on
Public Property or Public Rights -of -Way Prohibited.
No person or persons shall erect, place or dis-
play (or cause any such act or acts to be done)
any sign, sign structure or advertising device
in, under, on or over any public property or any
public right-of-way with respect to which the
city has jurisdiction. Any such sign, sign
structure or advertising device erected, placed
or displayed contrary to the provisions of this
section is a public nuisance and the Street
Department may immediately remove and dispose
of it without notice. The provisions of this
section shall not prohibit the posting of any
notice in the manner required by law, or by
the order of any court of this state. A sign,
sign structure or advertising device as used here-
in shall include any campaign sign erected
or displayed by any candidate or his agents or
campaign committee for any public office, for
an election.
Section 8560. Erection of Signs on Utility
Easements Prohibited.
No person or persons shall erect, place or
display (or cause any such act or acts to be
done) any sign, sign structure or advertising
device in, under, on or over any public ut-
ility right-of-way without first obtaining
the permission of said utility in writing
for the aforementioned use. No sign, sign
structure or advertising device shall be
attached to any utility pole without first
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obtaining the aforementioned permission.
Any such sign, sign structure or advertising
device erected, placed or displayed contrary
to the provisions of this section is a public
nuisance, and the Street Department or em-
ployees of the public utility may immediately
remove and dispose of it without notice. The
provisions of this section shall not prohibit
the posting of any notice in the manner required
by law or by the order of any court of this
state. A sign, sign structure or advertising
device as used herein shall include any campaign
sign erected or displayed by any candidate or
his agents or campaign committee for any public
office, for any election.
Section 8561. Regulation of Size and Number - Election
Campaign Signs.
No person or persons shall erect, place or
display (or cause any such act or acts to be
done) any sign, sign structure or advertising
device upon private property in any residential
zone, advertising or promoting the campaign of
any person to public office or any proposition
before the electorate which shall exceed a six
(6) square foot total aggregate maximum of sign
face per residential lot, on not to exceed two
(2) signs per residential lot.
Section 8562 Size and Number Limitations - Lots Other
Than Residential.
No person or persons shall erect, place or dis-
play (or cause any such act or acts to be done)
any sign, sign structure or advertising device
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on any private property other than property
residentially zoned which advertises or
promotes the election of any candidate to
public office or the passage of any pro-
position which shall exceed a sixty-four
(64) square foot total aggregate maximum
of sign face per lot on not to exceed two
(2) signs per lot.
Section 8563. Time Limit - Removal
All signs or advertising devices as pro-
vided for in this Ordinance, relating to the
election of candidates, or, the passage of
propositions shall be removed by the candi-
dates or persons responsible for installing
said signs or advertising devices, under the
following schedule:
(a) Not later than thirty (30) days
after any election in which the candidate
is finally elected or defeated, or, a pro-
position is finally acted upon.
(b) Not later than thirty (30) days
after a Primary Election for candidates un-
successful in said primary, or propositions
having been defeated in said primary.
(c) No later than thirty (30) days
after any General Election for all candi-
dates and all propositions involved in
said election."
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force thirty (30) days from and after its passage and shall
prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from its passage, be
published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a newspaper of
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general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa
Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City Council
voting for and against the same.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this lst day of November, 1971.
ATTEST: CITY OF COSTA MESA
BY �7
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City Clerk Mayor
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk of the City of Costa
Mesa, and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing
Ordinance No. 71-23 was introduced and considered section by
section at a regular meeting of said City Council on the 18th
day of October, 1971, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole
at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 1st day of
November, 1971, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Wilson, Jordan, Pinkley, St. Clair, Hammett
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 2nd day of
November, 1971.
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City Clerk and ex -officio erk
of the City Council of th City
of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
LEGAL NOTICE
�RIMPINCE He. 1111
THE CITY
HEREBY
I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the �. auialein: Placi°,u' of Advo tii
City Ordinanee Number be Clwlvalnol,.. ;mecca
ifornia, and I certify that me ary cwnuh .ata cm,ncn o
Y cat ePuttR
of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete
copy, was printed and published in the regular issue(s) of
said newspaper on November 6, 1971
I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing Zell ereo. Pua 'o7.
such u1 or
is true and correct. ,la�. ago rfm
Executed on November 6 1971
at Costa Mesa, California.
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or pauernsm. mmr on Public
Count aforesaid; I am over the a of eighteen ears, and
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not u party to or interested in the below entitled matter. I
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mHlee for any public
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am a principal clerk of the ORANGE COAST DAILY PILOT,
ulwvt lie, ,no to ate iI
umzcessan aesthetic eesenurn
a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published
ostal,iunlearbeading, m,..
in the City of Costa Mesa, County of Orange, State of Cal-
that
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to umm.' came mat o dimes
City Ordinanee Number be Clwlvalnol,.. ;mecca
ifornia, and I certify that me ary cwnuh .ata cm,ncn o
Y cat ePuttR
of which the copy attached hereto is a true and complete
copy, was printed and published in the regular issue(s) of
said newspaper on November 6, 1971
I declare, under penalty of perjury, that the foregoing Zell ereo. Pua 'o7.
such u1 or
is true and correct. ,la�. ago rfm
Executed on November 6 1971
at Costa Mesa, California.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS.
CITY OF COSTA MESA)
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that Ordinance No. 71-23 was introduced and con-
sidered, section by section, at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, held on the
18th day of _ October 7971, and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole
at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 1st day of November 1971,
by the following roll -call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN- Wilson, Jordan, Pinkley, St. Clair, Hammett
NOES: COUNCILMEN- None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN -
I FURTHER CERTIFY that said Ordinance No. 71-23 was published in the ORANGE COAST
DAILY PILOT, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of Costa Mesa, on the
6th day of November 197--L.
City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the Ci ouncil
of the City of Costa Mesa
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