Irwindale Municipal Code Ch. 15.24 Advertising Structures Near Highways

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* For statutory provisions authorizing local authorities to regulate advertising displays adjacent to streets or highways, see Bus. and Prof. Code § 5230.

As used in this chapter, certain terms shall be defined as follows:

A. "Advertising display" means advertising structures and signs.

B. "Advertising structure" means an outdoor advertising structure as defined in Section 17.08.400.

C. "Freeway" means a highway in respect to which the owners of abutting lands have no right or easement of access to or from their abutting lands or in respect to which such owners have only limited or restricted right or easement of access, and which is declared to be such in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code of the state.

D. "Landscaped freeway" means a section or sections of a freeway which is now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting, at least on one side of the freeway right-of- way, of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers or other ornamental vegetation which shall require reasonable maintenance. Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards, or traffic noise abatement, shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.

E. "Sign" means a sign as defined in Section 17.08.445.

F. The verb "to place," and any of its variants as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, stitching, carving or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible, any advertising display on or to the ground, or on any tree, bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure or thing.

G. Neither "advertising structures" nor "sign" as used in this chapter include:

1. Official notices issued by a court or public body or officer;

2. Notices posted by any public officer in performance of a public duty, or by any person in giving legal notice;

3. Directional, warning, or information signs or structures required or authorized by law or by federal, state or municipal authority;

4. Temporary political signs or posters.

(Ord. 209 § 5(part), 1967: prior code § 8500).

No advertising displays shall be placed or maintained in property adjacent to a section of freeway which has been landscaped as defined in subsection D of Section 15.24.010, if the advertising display is designed to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on such landscaped section of a freeway.

(Ord. 243 § 1, 1971: Ord. 209 § 5(part), 1967: prior code § 8501).

The provisions of Section 15.24.020 shall not apply to any of the following listed advertising structures or signs used exclusively:

A. To advertise the sale or lease of the property on which said advertising display is placed;

B. To designate the name of the owner or occupant of the premises upon which said advertising display is placed or to identify such premises;

C. To advertise the business conducted or goods manufactured or produced, or services rendered upon the property upon which said advertising display is placed.

(Ord. 209 § 5(part), 1967: prior code § 8502).

Any advertising structure or sign which is now, or hereafter may be, in violation of the provisions of Section 15.24.020 shall be removed within three years from the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter or within three years from the date when the project for the landscaping of a section or sections of a freeway has been completed or accepted, and the character of said section or sections has been changed from a freeway to a landscaped freeway, whichever is the later date.

(Ord. 209 § 5(part), 1967: prior code § 8503).