Ordinance No. 1059ORDINANCE NO. 1059
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS, AMENDING SECTION 29.31 OF THE CYPRESS
ZONING ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE REGULATION OF
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SIGNS
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Cypress recognizes that the regulation of signs and
banners is necessary to protect the general public health, safety, and welfare, while preserving
community aesthetics; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is amending Section 29.31 of the City of Cypress Zoning
Ordinance in order to better regulate the installation, use, and placement of political campaign signs
within the public right -of -way and other public domains.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Cypress, California, does hereby ordain
as follows:
Section 1. Section 29.31 of the Cypress Zoning Ordinance is hereby amended to read in its
entirety as follows:
Signs advertising a political candidate, group of candidates. political party, or ballot measure in
any district, municipal, county, state, federal election ( "Political Signs ") shall not be erected
more than 45 calendar days prior to the election to which the signs may pertain, and shall be
removed not later than 10 calendar days after the date of the election to which the signs may
pertain, subject to the following regulations:
A. No person shall post or otherwise affix any political campaign sign upon any public
facility located within any public right -of -way, or in or upon any other public property
or right -of -way, or in or upon any other property, easement, or other right -of -way
owned or controlled by the City of Cypress, including, but not limited to any street,
median, island, sidewalk, traffic signal, utility pole, wires, traffic control device,
building, wall, bridge, railroad trestle, hydrant, street tree, shrub, tree stake or tree
guard, or street sign; and
B. Political signs shall contain the committee name, address and, if available at the time of
posting, any state -law required identification number; and
C. Any political sign installed or placed illegally shall be forfeited and subject to
confiscation. In addition to other remedies, the City shall have the right to recover from
the owner of such illegally installed political sign, the cost of removal and disposal of
the same. Such cost shall be established by resolution of the City Council. The
Director of Public Works, or his /her designee, shall notify the owner or organization of
any such illegally posted sign of the confiscation of the same. Such owner or
organization may collect any such sign from the Public Works Department within
twenty (20) days of notification. Any such sign not collected within the twenty (20) day
period may be destroyed by the City without further notice.
Section 2. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion of this
Ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each
section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase, or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, or portions thereof be declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
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Section 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the same to
be posted at the duly designated posting places within the City and published once within fifteen days
after passage and adoption as may be required by law; or, in the alternative, the City Clerk may cause
to be published a summary of this Ordinance and a certified copy of the text of this Ordinance shall be
posted in the Office of the City Clerk five days prior to the date of adoption of this Ordinance; and,
within fifteen days after adoption, the City Clerk shall cause to be published, the aforementioned
summary and shall post a certified copy of this Ordinance, together with the vote for and against the
same, in the Office of the City Clerk.
FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the 28th day of June,
2004; and finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting held on the 12th day of July, 2004.
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MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
CI kICLERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF CYPRESS )
I, JILL R. GUERTIN, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY
that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cypress, held on the 12th day of July, 2004, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: McCoy, McGill, Sondhi and Keenan
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Piercy
ABSTAIN: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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CITE LERK OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
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