HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993-03-09 - ORDINANCES - NEWSRACK REGS (2)ORDINANCE NO. 93-6
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING
REGULATIONS FOR THE PLACEMENT OF NEWSRACKS AT
THE CITY'S INTERMODAL TRANSIT CENTER
(METROLINK STATION)
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Ordinance is to protect the health,
safety or welfare of the citizens of Santa Clarita by regulating
the placement and maintenance of newsracks, pursuant to Chapter
13.24 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code, at the City's
Intermodal Transit Center, referred to in this Ordinance as
"Station."
SECTION 2. NEWSRACKS PERMITTED. CRITERIA
A. Except as provided in this Ordinance, newsrack
placement and maintenance at the Station shall be permitted
pursuant to Chapter 13.24 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code.
B. No person shall place or maintain a newsrack at the
Station unless and until a newsrack permit has been obtained from
the City Manager for each and every newsrack placed or maintained
pursuant to the terms of this Ordinance and Chapter 13.24 of the
Santa Clarita Municipal Code.
C. Newsracks permitted at the Station shall be entirely
located within the newsrack structure, located at the Station
("Structure"). Notwithstanding any provision of this Ordinance
or Chapter 13.24 of the Santa Clarita Municipal Code, there shall
be no more than eight individual newsracks located within the
structure and at the Station at any given time.
D. Each newsrack permit issued pursuant to this Ordinance
shall contain the condition that the permittee shall execute a
license agreement with the City and shall contribute to the cost
of maintaining the Structure for the life of such permit.
E. The criteria for the selection and placement of
prospective newsrack applicants pursuant to this Ordinance at the
Station shall be established as follows:
(1) First priority shall be given to newsracks used
for the sale of publications which have been
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adjudicated to be newspapers of general circulation for
Los Angeles County, pursuant to the procedure set forth
in Division 7, Article 2 of the California Government
Code.
(2) Second priority shall be given to newsracks used
for the sale of daily publications (those published on
five or more days in a calendar week) which have not
been adjudicated to be newspapers of general
circulation for Los Angeles County.
(3) Third priority shall be given to newsracks used
for the sale of weekly publications (those published at
least one, but less than five days in a calendar week)
which have not been adjudicated to be newspapers of
general circulation for Los Angeles County.
As between newspapers included within any single category of
priority above, the City Manager shall be guided by the following
criteria of priorities:
(1) First priority shall be daily publications
(published five or more days per week).
(2) Second priority shall be publications published
two to four days per week.
(3) Third priority shall be publications published one
day per week.
In the event that there is a conflict between newspapers
within the same priority seeking the same location at the
Station, and there are insufficient newsrack spaces within the
newspaper structure remaining to accommodate the conflicting
newspapers after first filling as many spaces as possible by
utilizing the criteria set forth above, the City Manager shall
assign the space or spaces at random by placing the names of all
applicants for the remaining spaces at the Station into a
container from which the names shall be drawn, one at a time
until the Station's remaining number of unfilled newsracks have
been filled. Such drawing shall be open to the public at a time
and date designated by the City Manager.
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SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and cause the same to be published as required by
law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 9th
1993 ,
ATTEST:
day of March
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
CITY OF Santa Clarita )
.- I, Donna M. Grindey City Clerk of the City of
Santa Clarita , do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
No. 93-6 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first
reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 23rd day
of February , 1993 . That thereafter, said Ordinance was
duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council
on the 9th day of March 1993 , by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Darcy, Klajic, Pederson, Heidt
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: Boyer
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
4YCLERK
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