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AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS REGULATING
THE PLACING AND MAINTAN_MTCE OF SIGNS AND ADVERTISING STRUCTURES
71THIN THE TOWN OF IAS .ALTOS HILLS, PROVIDING FOR REMOVAL OF NON-
CONFORMING ADVERTISING DISPLAYS, PROVIDING FOR PETALTIES FOR VIO-
LATION, AND REPEALING ORDIN, SCE NO. 5 AND ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OR
PORTION OF ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT THEREWITH.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I: As used in this Ordinance, certain terms are
defined as follows:
A. ADVERTISING STRUCTURE. The term "advertising struct-
ure" shall mean a structure of any kind or character erected or
maintained for outdcor advertising purposes, upon which any sign,
poster, bill, printing, painting or other advertisement of any
kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary,
B. SIGN. The term "sign" shall mean any card, cloth,
metal, painted or wooden sign of any character, billboard, poster,
pennant, flag or sample, placed for advertising purposes on the
ground or any tree, wall bush, rock",,fence building, structure or
thing, either publicly or privately owned, other than an advertis-
ing structure.
C. EXC3TTIONS. Neither "sign" mm "advertising structure"
as used in this Ordinance shall be deemed to includes
(1) Official notices issued by any court or public
body or officer;
(2) Notices posted by any public officer in perforar
anee of a public duty or by any person in giving
any legal notice;
(3) Directional, warning or information signs or
structures required or authorized by law or by
competent governmental authority,
(4) Any display for other than advertising purposes
of the flag of the United States or of the State
of California,
D. ALVERTISING DISPLAY. The term "advertising display"
shall include both signs and advertising structures and combin-
ations thereof.
H. FREEWAY. The term "freeway" shall be deemed to mean
a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no
right or easement of access or in respect to which such owners have
only limited or restricted right or easement of sedess, and which
is declared to be such in compliance with the Streets and Highways
Code of the State of California.
F. LA7DSCAPE'D FREEWAY. The term "landscaped freeway"
shall be deemed to mean a section or sections of a freeway which is
now or hereafter may be either designated as a landscaped freeway
by the State Division of Highways, or improved by the planting, an
at least one .side of the freeway right-of-way, of lawns, trees,
shrubs, flowers or other ornamental vegetation which shall require
reasonable maintanence.
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G. TO PLACE. The verb "to plece" and any of its variants,
as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and erect-
ing, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing,
gluing, stitching, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing, or mak-
ing visible, any advertising display on or to the ground or any tree,
bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure or thing.
SECTION II: Except as may be otherwise provided herein, no
advertising display shall be placed or maintained on property within
the corporate limits of the Town of Los Altos Hills.
SECTION III: There shall be excepted from the prohibition
imposed by Section II of this Ordinance, advertising displays used
exclusively for any of the following purposes or any combination
thereof:
A. To advertise the sale or lease of the property upon
which such advertising display is placed.
B. To designate the name of the owner or occupant of the
premises upon which such advertising display is placed, or to identify
such premises.
C. To advertise goods manufactured, produced or grown, or
services rendered, on the property upon which such advertising display
is placed.
SUCTION IV: There shall also be excepted from the prohibi-
tion imposed by Section II of this Ordinance, directional advertising
displays indicating the location of parcels or subdivisions of land
for sale, and placed upon land adjacent to the public street nearest
to the land which is for sale, provided that except as hereinafter
provided only one such directional advertising display shall be placed
for each such subdivision advertised. The City Clerk is hereby author-
ized to issue licenses for the placing of additional directional ad-
vertising displays, in such numbers, at such locations and upon such
other reasonable terms as may be recommended by the Planning Commission
in particular cases. Each person or entity applying for permission to
place such additional advertising displays shall pay a fee of Five
Dollars ($5.00) for each such application. No license issued pursuant
to this Section shall be valid for a period longer than one year, but
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a shorter period of validity may be prescribed by the Planning Commis-
sion in any particular case. No advertising display designed to be
viewed primarily by persons travelling on a landscaped freeway shall be
permitted, even though such display might otherwise meet the require-
ments of this Section. Nothing in this Section shall, be deemed to re-
lieve the persons or entities placing advertising displays pursuant here-
to of their duties with respect to obtaining the permission of the own-
ers of lands of which advertising displays are so placed.
SECTION V: Every advertising display placed or maintained
pursuant to the exceptions established in Sections III and IV of this
Ordinance shall conform to all applicable building regulations and
shall not, in its overall dimensions occupy a total area in any plane
of more than six (6) square feet.
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SECTION VI: Any advertising display which is in existence on
the effective date of this Ordinance, and which is in violation of any
provision hereof, shall be removed within one (1) year after said
effective date.
SECTION VII: The Building Inspector of the Town of Los Altos
Hills and his agents are hereby empowered to remove or destroy any ad-
vertising display which is in violation of any of the provisions of
this Ordinance. The person placing such advertising display shall be
liable, in addition to any criminal penalties, for the cost of such
removal or destruction. For the purpose of removing or destroying
any advertising display placed in violation of this Ordinance, the
Building Inspector and his agents may enter upon private property
without incurring any liability therefor.
SECTION VIII: Violation of this Ordinance shall constitute
a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Three
Hundred Dollars (8300.00) or imprisonment not exceeding thirty (30)
days in such jail facilities as may then be in use by the Town of Los
Altos Hills. Each day such violation is committed, or permitted to
continue, shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable
as such hereunder.
SECTION IX: ORDINANCE No. 5 and all other Ordinances or
parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed.
SECTION X: The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills
does hereby declare that every paragraph, sentence, section or phrase
of this Ordinance would have been adopted irrespective of any other
paragraph, sentence, section or phrase hereof and that the remainder
of this Ordinance shall be continued in full force and effect regard-
less of the fact that any other paragraph, sentence, section or phrase
of this Ordinance may be declared invalid or unconstitutional by any
court of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION XI: This Ordinance shall be posted in three (3)
public places within the Town of Los Altos Hills and shall become
effective thirty (30) days after its final adoption.
The foregoing Ordinance was duly and regularly introduced
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the Town of Los Altos
Hills held on the 3-d day of1958, and was duly
and regularly passed by the following/ vote:
AYES:
NOES:
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