Lemoore Municipal Code Ch. 4 Advertising Displays Adjacent to Freeways

As used in this Chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:

ADVERTISING DISPLAY: Refers to advertising structures and to signs.

ADVERTISING STRUCTURE; SIGN:

Advertising Structure: Refers to a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes on which any poster, bill, printing, painting or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary.

Sign: Refers to any card, cloth, metal, painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on or to the ground, or any tree, wall, bush, rock, fence, building, structure, or thing, either publicly or privately owned, other than an advertising structure.

Neither "advertising structure" nor "sign", as used in this Chapter includes:

A. Official notices issued by a court or public body or officers;

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

C. Directional, warning or information signs or structures required or authorized by law or by Federal, State or Municipal authority.

FREEWAY: 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 of California.

LANDSCAPED FREEWAY: A section or sections of a freeway which is now or hereafter may be improved by the planting of 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 or traffic noise abatement shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.

TO PLACE: 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 any tree, bush, rock, fencepost, wall building, structure or thing. (1975 Code §10-3.01)

No advertising displays shall be placed or maintained on property adjacent to a section of freeway which has been or hereafter may be landscaped as defined herein, if the advertising display is designated to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on such landscaped section of a freeway or if prohibited by the Zoning Ordinance of the City 1 . (1975 Code §10-3.02)

Any advertising structure or sign which is now or hereafter may be in violation of the provisions of Section 7-4-2 of this Chapter shall be removed within three (3) years from the date when the project for the landscaping of a section or sections of a freeway shall have been completed or accepted or within (3) years from the effective date hereof, and the character of said section or sections shall have been changed from a freeway to a landscaped freeway, whichever is later. (1975 Code §10-3.04)

The provisions of Section 7-4-2 of this Chapter shall not apply to any of the following listed advertising structures or signs used exclusively to:

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

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

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

Such signs shall only be allowed in accordance with the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance of the City or other ordinances pertaining thereto. (1975 Code §10-3.03)