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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 362ORDINANCE TSO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS AND PROVIDING THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINAIXES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows: - SECTION 1. Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases when used in this ordinance have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning: (a) "Person" includes any person, firm, part- nership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind. (b) "Handbill" includes any printed or written advertising matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, paper, book- let, or any other printed matter or'literature,(but excludes any such matter which pertains exclusively to expressions of opinion on purely political matters) SECTION 2. Distributing on Public Property. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to deposit, place, throw, scatter, or cast, any handbill in or on any public thoroughfare, park, ground or other public place within the City of Azusa; the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the handl:lg, transmitting or distributing of any handbill to any person willing :to accept such handbill. SECTION 3. Placing in Vehicles. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to distribute, deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast, any handbill in or upon any automobile or other vehicle; the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the handing, transmitting or distributing of any handbill to the owner or other occupant of any automobile or other vehicle who is willing to accept such handbill. 1 SECTIOIT 4. Distributing on Private Property. It shall be unlawful for any person, either directly or indirectly, to distribute, deposit, place, throw, scatter, or cast; any handbill in or upon any private yard, grounds, walk, porch, steps, mailbox, vestibule, house, residence, building, or any other private property; the provisions of this section shall not be deemed to prohibit the handing, transmitting or distribu- ting of any handbill to the owner or other occupant of said Drivate.yard, grounds, calk, porch, steps, mail- box, vestibule, house, residence, building or other private property, who is willing to accept such handbill. SECTION 5. Posting Property Permitted. It shall be lawful for the owner or the occupant of any property to place a sign in a conspicuous place near the entrance thereof indicating that no handbills are desired; and it shall be unlawful for any person, to dis- tribute,deposit, place, throw, scatter, or cast, any handbill upon said premises so posted. SECTION 6. Hours of Distribution Limited. It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute any handbill between the hours of 9;00 P.Pi. of any day and 5:00 A.M. of the following day. SECTIO;' 7. Exemptions. The provisions of this ordinance shall not be deemed to apply to messenger service or to the distribution of the United States mail or telegrams, nor to the delivery of any handbill to any person who has requested delivery of same. SECTION 8. Ordinance No. 298 of the City of Azusa adopted and approved on the 17th day of October, 1932, and all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTIO174 9. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance, or its applica- tion to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance, or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected. ' 2 SECTION 10. Penalty. Any person who shall violate any provision of this ordinance shall be guilt* of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00). or by Imprison- ment in the City Jail or in the.County Jail of th6 County of Los Angeles for not exceeding Two (2).months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION -11. Approval, Attestation & Publication. The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication of the same and shall cause the same to be published once within 15 days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald & Pomotropic, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of Azusa, which said newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose and thereupon and thereafter 30.days after its passage this ordinance shall take effect and be in. force. V. A. Owens Mayor of the City of Azusa Attest: M. A. Hynes City Clerk o.: tkie City of Azusa Passed, approved and adopted this day of/L���,1941. 3. STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) (SS. COUNTY OF LOS AUGELES ) Ij Pi. A. Hynes, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa held on the 4th day of August, 1941, in the regular Council Chambers of the said City Council in said City; that said ordinance was placed upon its first reading at /S said regular meeting August *, 1941; that thereafter said ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the E:iayor, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at a regular meeting of said. Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council at the next regular meeting of said City Council,omit-- ,2, , 1941, and that the same was then passed and adopted by the following vote of the Coundil:- pr /r P,ves: Councilment Noes: Councilmen: �7&-,rLc- Absent: Councilmen: I do further certify that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of 15 days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald & Pomotropic of A;�-1,L , 1941, and that the same was published in accordance with lave. 1�5M . A. HYTI City Clerk of the City of Azusa. 4