12.12.020 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows: (1)

"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 advertising of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary.

(2)

"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.

(3)

Neither "advertising structures" nor "sign", as used in this chapter, includes:

A.

Official notices issued by a court or public body or officer;

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.

(4)

"Advertising display" refers to advertising structures and to signs.

(5)

"Freeway" means 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 the 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.

(6)

"To place", and all of its variants as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, glueing, stitching, carving, or otherwise fastening, affixing or making visible any advertising display on or to the ground or any tree, bush, rock, fence, post, wall, building, structure or thing.

(7)

"Landscaped freeway" means 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, lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers or other ornamental vegetation which require reasonable maintenance.

Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control, traffic safety requirements, reduction of fire hazards or traffic noise abatement shall not change the character of a freeway to a landscaped freeway.

(Ord. 68 §2 (part), 1963; Ord. 64 §1 (part), 1962: Ord. 40 §1 (part), 1961: prior code §§7200 and 7501).