Garden Grove Municipal Code Ch. 1.12 City Seal

There is hereby adopted as the seal of the City the following:

A seal consisting of a stylized "G" in the shape of a trapezoid, with a base of approximately one and one-half inches and a height of approximately one and one-half inches with rounded corners having a radius of approximately 1/8 of an inch, in which the top is parallel with the base and the sides taper from the bottom towards the top and form an interior angle of approximately 85 degrees with the base of the "G." Lying within the "G" and offset towards the lower left of the "G" is scribed a circle, having a diameter of approximately 15/16 of an inch and being approximately 3/32 of an inch from the left side and approximately 1/8 of an inch from the bottom of the "G." Then dropping down vertically from the center of the top of the "G" is delineated a line, with a width of approximately 1/16 of an inch, which continues down till its intersection with the aforementioned circle. Then extending vertically upwards from the base, approximately 1/3 the distance along the base from the right hand side as one would view it, is delineated another line, with a width equal to the width of the first line just described, which continues upward until it intersects the aforementioned circle. A final line is delineated to give the trapezoid the form of a "G" by extending a horizontal line towards the right, as one would view it, from the first constructed line that extended from the top towards the aforementioned circle and emanating from a point on this line approximately 3/5 the distance down from the top to the aforementioned circle and then terminating at its intersection with the right side. This horizontal line would be twice as wide as the vertical line from which it is emanating. Set within the circle, and concentric to it using a radius approximately 1/16 of an inch smaller is a gear containing 27 cogs, all of the same size, spaced by a distance equal to the width of one cog and each cog having a depth of approximately 1/32 of an inch. Set within the gear concentric to and centered at the top using an outer radius approximately 1/16 of an inch smaller than the inner radius of the cogs, appear the words "City of Garden Grove" that forms a curve parallel to the outer edge of the gear. Parallel and concentric to said words and approximately 1/16 of an inch below same forming a parallel curve shall be shown five orange trees set at equal intervals from each other; in the center of the gear and equally spaced on the left and right sides shall be shown a replica of the former City Hall, which was located at 11391 Acacia Parkway, Garden Grove, California; centered immediately below the replica of City Hall shall be the words "Absit Invidia"; centered immediately below "Absit Invidia" appears the year "1956"; and finally, centered at the bottom and using letters of the same design and dimension as the words "City of Garden Grove" shall appear the word "California" forming a curve parallel to the outer edge of the gear and shall lie on a radius of the same dimension as that on which the words "City of Garden Grove" lie. Immediately below the "G" shall appear the words "Garden Grove" and shall be equal in length to the greatest horizontal width at the base of the "G."

(1185 § 1, 1971; 2800 § 1, 2011)