San Diego Municipal Code § 52.30 No Trespassing Signs — Posting Authorized

Any person, firm or corporation, governmental agency, department or instrumentality having possession or control, of any of the facilities, plants or utility properties enumerated in Section 52.30.1 hereof, may post, at each entrance of 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 three hundred 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 posted; provided, further, anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, that in the case of power transmission lines and main telephone lines it shall be a sufficient compliance with the posting requirements of this ordinance if the sign is placed upon each main transmission pole or tower, in which case the limits of the easement or right of way need not be posted.

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. (“No Trespassing Signs — Posting Authorized” incorp. 1–22–1952 by O–5046 N.S., contained in O–1948 N.S. adopted 10–1–1940.)

The places which may be so posted are the following:

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

(b) Every tank–farm, refinery, compressor–plant or absorption plant, marine
terminal, pipe line, 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 pipe line, or 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;

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(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 plant for the bulk storage of dynamite, giant powder, gun powder, or
other explosive.
(“Same — Posting — Where Permitted” incorp. 1–22–1952 by O–5046 N.S.)

It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter in the immediate vicinity or any premises posted as provided in this section and these Subsections. (“Loitering — A Misdemeanor” incorp. 1–22–1952 by O–5046 N.S.)

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

Nothing in this Section or these Subsections shall be deemed to prohibit or interfere with any lawful activities of a labor organization, or other body of citizens, in peacefully disseminating information to their own members, to the public, or to individuals, regarding the existence of a bona fide labor dispute. (“Same — Exemptions” incorp. 1–22–1952 by O–5046 N.S.)

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 Section and these Subsections, 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. (“Same — Damaging Signs” incorp. 1–22–1952 by O–5046 N.S.)

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