Purpose and Intent. | |
Definitions. | |
Newsrack Certificate. | |
Newsrack Identification. | |
Newsracks Prohibited. | |
Maintenance and Display Standards. | |
Correction of Violations; Hearing. | |
Reserved. | |
Administrative Fines; Other Remedies. | |
Insurance. | |
Indemnification. | |
Severability. | |
Fixed Pedestal Newsracks. | |
The Board of Supervisors hereby finds that newsracks placed and maintained on the streets, sidewalks, or other public rights-of-way, absent some reasonable regulation, may unreasonably interfere with the use of such streets, sidewalks, and public rights-of-way, and may present hazards to persons or property.
The Board of Supervisors further finds that streets, sidewalks and public rights-of-way are historically associated with the sale and distribution of newspapers and other publications, and that access to and use of these areas for such purposes is not to be denied except where such use unreasonably interferes with the use of these areas by pedestrians or traffic, or where such use presents a hazard to persons or property.
The Board of Supervisors therefore has determined that a reasonable accommodation of these competing interests can be achieved by adoption of this Article, which regulates the placement and maintenance of newsracks.
(Added by Ord. 359-85, App. 7/24/85)
(a) "Newsrack" is any self-service or coin-operated box, container, storage unit, or other dispenser installed, used, or maintained for the display and sale or distribution without charge of newspapers, periodicals or other publications.
(b) "City" is the City and County of San Francisco.
(c) "Person" is an individual, firm, partnership, joint venture, association, social club, fraternal organization, joint stock company, corporation, estate, trust, business trust, receiver, trustee, syndicate, or any other group or combination acting as a unit, excepting the United States of America, the State of California, or any political subdivision thereof.
(d) "Director of Public Works" is the City's Director of Public Works or his or her designated representative.
(e) "General Manager of MUNI" is the General Manager of the City's Municipal Railway or his or her designated representative.
(f) "Abandoned newsrack" is any newsrack which remains empty for 10 business days, except that a newsrack remaining empty due to labor strike or any temporary and extraordinary interruption of distribution or publication by the newspaper or other publication sold or distributed from that newsrack shall not be deemed abandoned.
(Added by Ord. 359-85, App. 7/24/85)
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