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ORDINANCE NS-897 AMENDING ARTICLE VIII, CHAPTER 4, <br />OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING AND <br />ENACTING SECTIONS TO REGULATE FREEWAY SIGNS <br /> <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: <br /> <br /> SECTION 1: That Sections 8441 through 8441.5 of the Santa Ana <br />Municipal Code are hereby repealed. <br /> <br /> SECTION 2: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended <br />by enacting Sections 8441 through 8441.6 to Article VIII, Chapter 4, <br />to read in words and figures as follows: <br /> <br />SECTION 8441. ADVERTISING SIGNS ADJACENT TO FREEWAYS <br /> PROHIBITED. <br /> <br /> No advertising structure, accessory sign, or other <br />advertising sign shall be erected or constructed within <br />five hundred feet of the right of way of any Freeway or <br />adopted Freeway route, regardless of the district or zone <br />in which it is located if such structure or sign is designed <br />to have or has the advertising thereon maintained primarily <br />to be viewed from a main traveled roadway of such Freeway, <br />except as provided in Section 8441.5, infra. <br /> <br />SECTION 8441.1 SAME. FREEWAY DEFINED. <br /> <br /> FREEWAY is hereby defined to mean highway in respect to <br />which the owners of abutting lands have no right of easement <br />or access to or from their abutting lands or in respect to <br />which such owners have only limited or restricted easement <br />or access, and which is adopted by the California Hiqhway <br />Commission in compliance with the Streets and Highways Code <br />of the State of California. <br /> <br />SECTION 8441.2 SAME. ADVERTISING STRUCTURES DEFINED. <br /> <br /> ADVERTISING STRUCTURE in connection with Freeways is <br />hereby defined to be any structure or device of any kind or <br />character erected or maintained or employed for outdoor <br />advertising purposes, upon which any poster, bill, printing, <br />painting whatsoever may be placed, posted, painted, fastened <br />or affixed or used in connection therewith, including so- <br />called electric or cut-out signs; provided, however, that the <br />same shall not be deemed to include any board, sign, or <br />surface used exclusively to display official notices issued <br />by any court or public official in performance of a public <br />duty, or a private person in giving legal notice; nor shall <br />the same include any sign not exceeding twenty square feet <br />in area used exclusively to advertise the sale or lease of <br />the property on which the sign is placed. <br /> <br />SECTION 8441.3 SAME. ACCESSORY SIGN DEFINED. <br /> <br /> ACCESSORY SIGN is defined to be any advertising sign or <br />sign device erected or maintained or employed and which is <br />strictly incidental and subordinate to the lawful use of the <br />premises upon which it is located and indicates the business <br />transacted or services rendered or goods sold or produced on <br />the premises, the name of the building, or an occupant <br />thereof. <br /> <br /> <br />