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ORDINANCE NO. 660
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE AZUSA
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF
HANDBILLS.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 4300 to 4304 of the Azusa Municipal Code
are hereby amended to read respectively as follows:
"SECTION 4300. HANDBILL, DEFINITION.
When used in this Part the word 'Handbill ' includes any
printed or written advertising matter, any advertising sample
or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper,
paper, booklet, or any other printed matter or literature, but
excludes any such matter which pertains exclusively to expressions
of opinion on purely political or religious matters.
SECTION 4301. DISTRIBUTING HANDBILLS ON PUBLIC PROPERTY.
No person, either directly or indirectly, shall deposit,
place, throw, scatter, or cast, any handbill in or on any public
thoroughfare, park, ground or other public place within the City.
SECTION 4302. PLACING HANDBILLS IN VEHICLES.
No person, either directly or indirectly, shall distribute,
deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast, any handbill in or upon
any automobile or other vehicle.
SECTION 4303. DISTRIBUTING HANDBIJ•T«S ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
No person, either directly or indirectly, shall 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.
SECTION 4304. DEPOSITING IN RECEPTACLE.
Nothing in this Part shall be construed to prohibit the
placing or depositing of any handbill in a box or receptacle,
other than a mailbox, which is maintained on private property
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-half inch in height. "
SECTION 2. Section 4306 of the Azusa Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 4306. EXCEPTIONS.
The provisions of this Part shall not be deemed to apply
to the distribution or delivery of United States mail or of
telegrams or of any newspaper which at the time of its distri-
bution is capable of being entered in the United States mails
as second class matter under the provisions of applicable United
States Post Office Regulations and United States Statutes. "
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this Oth day of January , 1961.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS. -fi:. :,off
CITY OF AZUSA
I, GEORGE CASWELL, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Azusa,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 66o was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 16th day of January , 1961. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular@t}. dof the
City Council on the 30th day of January , 1961, by the following
vote, to-wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Paul, McLees, Johnson, Teasley, Ortuno
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None ,
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ep 'y City Clerk
I do further certify that I caused said Ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage
thereof in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general
circulation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, on
the 6th day of February , 1961, and that the same was published in
accordance with law.
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