Monrovia Municipal Code Ch. 9.24 Loitering Near Defense Plants

Public safety hereby is declared to require that the uninterrupted operation of certain industries essential to national defense, such as the aircraft manufacturing industry, and of companies or agencies supplying water, gas, electric and other essential services, be protected by preventing the intrusion upon the properties thereof of idle, curious or malicious persons and of persons whose presence thereon is not necessary, and by prohibiting the loitering about such places by persons capable of inflicting harm or of impeding the operation conducted thereon.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.010)

(A) Any person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control of any of the facilities, plants or utility properties enumerated in § 9.24.030 may post, at each entrance to any structure devoted to any use so enumerated, at each entrance to any fenced or enclosed area devoted to any such use, and at intervals of not more than 300 feet around any area devoted to such use, substantial signs not less than one square foot in area, displaying prominently in addition to such other information as may be deemed desirable, the words, “Trespassing, Loitering Forbidden by Law,” in legible letters not less than two inches in height; provided, however, that any public waiting room, dining room, office or other portion of any such structure or premises to which general public access is required in the normal use and operation thereof or where materials are delivered to or received by the public, shall not be so posted.

(B) The posted boundary of any area shall be a line running from sign to sign, and such line need not conform to the legal boundary or legal description of any lot, parcel or acreage of land.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.020)

The places which may be posted as provided in § 9.24.020 are the following:

(A) Every airport, and every plant, field and structure used for the manufacturing, assembling or testing of aircraft;

(B) Every tank farm, refinery, compressor plant or absorption plant, marine terminal, pipeline pumping station and reservoir, used for the bulk treatment, bulk handling or bulk storage of petroleum or petroleum products;

(C) Every reservoir, dam, pumping station, aqueduct, main, canal or pipeline, of a public water system;

(D) Every reservoir, dam, generating plant, receiving station, distributing station and transmission line of a company or agency furnishing electrical energy;

(E) Every gas generating plant, compressor plant, gas holder, gas tank and gas main used for the production, storage and distribution of gas;

(F) Every plant or vital part thereof or other principal property essential to rendering telephone or telegraph service;

(G) Every radio broadcasting central plant or station;

(H) Every railroad bridge or tunnel;

(I) Every sanitary sewer system, disposal plant, pipeline or other principal property used as a part of the system of sewage removal or disposal;

(J) Every plant for the bulk storage of dynamite, giant powder, gun powder or other explosive.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.030)

Every person who tears down, defaces or destroys, or causes to be torn down, defaced or destroyed, any sign placed or posted under the provisions of this chapter without the consent of the person, firm, corporation, governmental agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control of the premises on which such sign has been erected is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.040)

When any such premises is posted as provided in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for any person to go upon or to remain upon any place within the posted boundary of any such premises, or to enter or to remain in any such posted structure, without having upon his person the express written consent of the person, firm, corporation, department or agency lawfully in possession or control thereof.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.050)

This chapter does not apply to any entry in the course of duty of any peace officer nor to any person traversing an established and existing public sidewalk, street or highway.

(`83 Code, § 9.24.060)