HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 61-28ORDINANCE NO. 61 -28
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CITY ORDINANCE NO.
60 -11 RELATING TO THE DISSEMINATION OF
ADVERTISING MATTER.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. City Ordinance No. 60 -11 is hereby amended
as follows:
By striking Section 2 in its entirety.
SECTION 2. The following shall be inserted in its
place and stead as Section 2 of Ordinance 60 -11.
'=.SECTION 2. 'Advertising Matter,' for the purpose
of this Ordinance, .shall mean and include printed handbills,
posters, dodgers, booklets, cards in excess of two and one -half
(22) inches by four (4) inches, and any other printed advertis-
ing matter describing or calling attention to any produce, busi-
ness, enterprise, person, form or corporation for any purpose
other than solely for religious or political purposes, but ex-
cluding a newspaper..
"'Disseminate,' as used in this Ordinance, shall
mean and include the terms distribute, deposit, hand out, pass
out, give out, deliver and throw away, as well as causing or
permitting any of the foregoing.
"'Newspaper,' for the purpose of this Ordinance,
shall mean and belimited to a publication which has been and at
the time of its dissemination or distribution is admitted as
second class matter under applicable United States Postal regu-
lations, is a newspaper of general circulation adjudicated as
such pursuant to Article 2, Chapter 1, Division 7 of the Govern-
ment Code of the State of California. (Sections 6020 through
6027) under the laws of the State of California, and at the time
of its dissemination or distribution maintains a bona fide list
of paying subscribers at regular published rates.
"Person,' as used in this Ordinance, shall mean and
include any individual person, firm, association, organization,
partnership, business trust, Massachusetts trust, company or
corporation.
"'Premises,' as used in this Ordinance, shall mean
and include every house, dwelling, building, structure, enclo-
sure, business establishment, lot, ye.d-, location, place, alley,
parkway, sidewalk, street, public way and every vehicle.
"'Printed,' as used in this Ordinance, shall mean
and include the terms, mimeographed, lithographed, hand- written,
stereotyped, typewritten and printed."
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SECTION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to dis-
seminate advertising matter to, at, upon, or onto any premises
in the City of Temple City except: (a) In, at or upon a box or
receptacle (other than a United States Mail Box) marked with
letters at least one-half inch high "For Advertising Matter; or
(b) In, at or upon the premises of a tenant in lawful possession
thereof who has signed and filed with the person disseminating
the advertising matter a written request that such advertising
matter be deposited on his premises. All such written requests
must be maintained at all times in the office or place of busi-
ness of the person disseminating such advertising matter, and
shall be kept on file for a period of six months after the last
dissemination of advertising matter pursuant to such request.
Such written request once made by a tenant in lawful possession
of premises shall remain applicable as to the premises described
in such consent until countermanded by the tenant in lawful pos-
session of the same premises. The owner of vacant property shall
be deemed to be the tenant in lawful possession of premises for
the purposes of this Ordinance. All such written requests shall
be available for inspection by any city official of the City of,
Temple City during all regular business hours.
All advertising matter disseminated in the City of Temple
City shall have printed thereon or affixed in legible form the
name, address and telephone number of the person responsible for
the distribution of such advertising matter, together with a
legible notice to the effect that anyone who does not desire to
receive such advertising matter shall notify the said person
responsible for the distribution thereof or the City Cleric, City
Hall, City of Temple City, in writing to that effect. Thereafter
the person thus notified shall disseminate no such advertising
matter to the premises described in such notification.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be
invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of com-
petent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity,
of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance, and
each section, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, ir-
respective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
clauses, phrases or portions be declared invalid or unconstitu-
tional.
SECTION 5. Any person violating or permitting or re-
sponsible for the violating of any of the provisions of this Or-
dinance,shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine or not more than five hundred
dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the
City of Temple City, or in the County Jail of the County of Los
Angeles, California, as the committing magistrate may direct,
for a period of not more than -six (6) months, or by both such
fine-and imprisonment. Every such person continuing, committing
or permitting the violation of any provisions of this Ordinance
shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every
day or portion of any dgy during which any violation of any pro-
vision of this Ordinance is committed or permitted.
SECTION 6. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this Ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15)
days from the passage hereof, shall cause the same to be pub-
lished once in the Temple City Times, a newspaper of general cir-
culation published and circulated in the City of Temple City.
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PASSED and ADOPTED by'the City Council of the City of
Temple City at a regular meeting thereof held this 23d day of
January, 1961, by the following called vote:
AYES: Councilmen - Buchan, Dickason, Merritt, Tyrell
& Fitzjohn
NOES: Councilmen- None.'.
ABSENT:
ATTEST:
Councilmen -None
—Mayor of the 1JiT7oT , p e City,
California
Clerk oi' thie amity of Temp
City, California V
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF TEMPLE CITY )
I, Marjorie A. Woodruff, do hereby certify that I have been duly
appointed Deputy City Clerk of the City of Temple City, California,
and that the foregoing Ordinance No. 61 -28 was introduced at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on January 9, 1961, and
adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on January
23, 1961, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Councilmen- Buchan, Dickason, Merritt, Tyrell, Fitzjohn
NOES: Councilmen -None
ABSENT: Councilmen -None
Dated: January 23, 1961
Deput City C er o t ei t I'ty
Templ- City, California
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