HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 91-O3 ORDINANCE NO. 91-03
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA ADDING SECTION 8. 52. 180 TO
THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING THE
STORAGE OF AEROSOL SPRAY PAINT CONTAINERS
AND MARKER PENS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Azusa
hereby finds, determines and declares that:
A. Provisions of state law provide punishment for
vandalism in the form of malicious defacing of property
with paint, and prohibit the sale to or purchase by
minors of aerosol spray paint containers capable of
defacing property.
B. Notwithstanding such prohibitions, graffiti
caused by aerosol spray paint continues to proliferate
in the City of Azusa due in substantial part to theft of
large felt tipped marker pens and aerosol spray paint
containers.
C. Graffiti can be created not only by aerosol
spray paint, but also by large tipped marker pens.
D. Supplemental local deterrents to the
availability for use of aerosol containers of paint and
marker pens are needed to further inhibit their use for
graffiti purposes.
SECTION 2 . Section 8.52 . 180 is hereby added to the
Azusa Municipal Code to read as follows:
Section 8.52 . 180 DISPLAY OF AEROSOL SPRAY PAINT
CONTAINERS AND MARKER PENS
Every person who owns, conducts, operates or
manages a retail commercial establishment selling
aerosol containers, or marker pens with tips
exceeding four millimeters in width, containing
anything other than a solution which can be removed
with water after it dries, shall store or cause
such aerosol containers or marker pens to be stored
in an area viewable by, but not accessible to the
public in the regular course of business without
employee assistance, pending legal sale or
disposition of such marker pens or paint
containers.
SECTION 3 . The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this lathday of March
19_92.
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MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF AZUSA )
I, ADOLPH SOLIS, City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 91-03
was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 4th day of
Marr•h , 19 91 That thereafter, said Ordinance was
duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 1 Rthday of March , 19 91 , by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: DANGLEIS, STEMRICH, NARANJO, ALEXNDER,
MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE �/ i
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