Ordinance - 251ORDINANCE NO.251
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
.CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE.DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS WITHIN
SAID CITY AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to distribute, throw or deliver, or cause to be distri-
buted, thrown or delivered, any paper, advertisement, handbill,
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circular,card,
booklet,poster,
dodger, advertising sample or waste
paper upon any
public street,
alley, parkway,sidewalk or other
public place in the City of West Covina, or upon or in any private
premises, yard, residence or dwelling or upon any vacant property
or premises or upon or in any automobile or other vehicle of
another person, firm or corporation, or to or among pedestrians
or persons in, along or upon any public street, alley, sidewalk
or other public place within said City of West Covina; provided,
however, that nothing in this section contained shall be so construed
as to prohibit the placing or depositing of any such matter in a
box or receptacle, other than a mail box, which is maintained upon
private property or premises for the purpose of receiving such
matter, when and if such box or receptacle has printed thereon the
• word "advertising" in letters not less than one inch in height,
or to prohibit the delivery or distribution of any complete news-
paper or other printed matter which has been entered or is capable
of being entered as second class matter., in the United States mails
under the provisions of the United States Post Office regulations
of March 3, 1879, as amended, and other applicable United States
statutes or regulations.
SECTION 2, It shall be unlawful for any person, firm. or
corporation to paint, mark, paste, fasten, or in any other manner
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affix to or cause to be painted, marked, pasted, fastened or in
any other manner affixed to or on any curb, street, sidewalk, lamp
post, street sign post, or any sign erected -for the purpose of -
directing,or warning traffic or to or on any telephone, telegraph,
or electric light pole, tree or shrub in any park, public street,
alley, parkway or sidewalk, any sign, poster or advertisement of
• any kind, or to erect or place or cause to be erected or placed
any such sign, poster or advertisement upon any public street,
alley, parkway or other public property, without first obtaining
a written permit so to do from said. City Council, or to erect or _.
place or cause to be erected or placed any such sign or advertise-
ment upon any private premises or property without the written
consent of the owner or occupant or person in charge thereof,
provided that nothing in this Section contained shall be so con-
strued as to prohibit the erection and maintenance of official
warnings or direction signs by any department of the City of West
Covina or to legal notices posted in the places and manner prescribed
by law.
Nothing in this Section contained shall be so construed as
to apply to permanent signs painted on buildings or signs advertising
the business painted on buildings or signs advertising the business
conducted on the premises nor to prohibit or otherwise regulate
the delivery of any matter hereinabove described by the United
States Postal Service,
SECTION 3. That any pers,pn, firm or corporation as principal,
officer, agent, clerk or employee, whether acting for himself or
itself or for another person, firm or corporation, violating any
of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall be deemed guilty of a
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misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable
by a.fine not exceeding $300.00 or by imprisonment in the
County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, State of California,
for a period not exceeding three months or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
• of this Ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15)
days from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be posted
with the names of the members voting for and against the same in
three places within the City, in the manner required by the laws
and ordinances in the City of West Covina, and thirty (30) days
from and after the final passage thereof said Ordinance shall
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of tfine City Council of the City of West
Covina, on the 25th day of May,1953, by the affirmative vote of
• at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES; Councilmen BERT C. VAN HORN C. L. MOSSBERG I CAL SPERLINEOE -Uuns" MAYpR
NOES: N 0 A E
ABSENT: FRANK DELAY
City Clerk of the City of WestCovina
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
ROBERT FLOTTEN, being by me first duly sworn, deposes and
says: That he is the City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
California, a citizen of the United States and over the age of
21 years; that on the I
5Tday of Tv N C , 1953, he posted
three copies of Ordinance No.251 of the City of West Covina,
entitled "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA, CALIFORNIA, REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS
WITHIN SAID CITY AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF"
in three public places in said City, to -wit: One at the Police
Office, 2133 West Garvey Boulevard, one in front of the West
Covina School House, and one at the northwest corner of Puente
Street and Lark Ellen Boulevard.
City er
• Subscribed and sworn to before me
thisday of May, 1953.
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No ary Pu lic in an a Coun y
of Los Angeles,State or California
T.#v Commission Expires August 12,1958
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