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ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That Sections 8441 through 8441.5 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code are hereby repealed.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