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Title 1 — GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chula Vista Municipal Code Ch. 1.08 City Seal

Chula Vista Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Chula Vista

Cite as: Chula Vista Municipal Code Chapter 1.08 · Text as of 2026-10-04

1.08.010 Official and pictorial – Authorization for commercial use required.

***** For statutory provisions requiring that the City Clerk be the custodian of the City seal, see Gov. Code § 40811.

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1.08.010 Official and pictorial – Authorization for commercial use required.

A. The official seal of the City shall be circular, shall have a diameter of a size appropriate for use on official City documents, and having in the center a design described as a sun rising in the background over a grid pattern of City streets with a sailboat in San Diego Bay in the foreground and the following inscription surrounding the same:

CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA.

B. The official logo of the City shall be of the same approximate design as the official seal of the City, as adopted by the City Council from time to time, and may be used on all documents pertaining to the business of the City.

C. No person or persons shall use or allow to be used any reproduction or facsimile or any purported reproduction or facsimile of the official seal or official logo of the City, or any other official seal, logo, insignia, emblem, or symbol of any City agency, department, office, board, or commission maliciously, or for any commercial purpose unless previously authorized by the Council. (Ord. 2278 § 1, 1988; Ord. 1208 § 1; prior code § 1.12).

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