Sections:
9.12.010 Definitions.
9.12.020 Property eligible for posting.
9.12.030 Method of posting.
9.12.040 Trespassing on posted property deemed misdemeanor.
9.12.050 Destroying signs deemed misdemeanor.
9.12.060 Loitering on posted property deemed misdemeanor--Exceptions.
9.12.070 Exemptions.
9.12.080 Effect of provisions on lawful labor activities.
9.12.090 Penalty for violations.
The following terms used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, shall have the respective meanings set forth in this section:
A. "Posted boundary" means a line running from sign to sign and such line need not conform to the legal boundary or legal description of any lot, parcel, or acreage of land, but only the area within the "posted boundary" shall constitute "posted property," except as otherwise provided in subsection E of Section 9.12.030.
C. "Sign" means a sign affixed not less than three feet nor more than six feet above the ground level at the place of posting as specified in Section 9.12.030, which sign shall consist of wood, metal, or other substantial material, with a face of not less than one square foot in area and upon which in letters not less than two inches in height, either black against a white background or white against a black background, or contrasting colors, appear, in addition to such other information as may be placed thereon, the following: TRESPASSING, LOITERING FORBIDDEN BY LAW."
(Prior code § 9.48.010 (Ord. 229 § 1, 1940))
Any property except that portion of such property to which the general public is accorded access, may be posted against trespassing and loitering in the manner provided in Section 9.12.030 and thereby become "posted property" subject to the provisions of this chapter applicable to posted property, if such property consists of or is used or designed to be used for any one or more of the following:
A. Oil and Gas Facilities. An oil well, oil field, tank farm, refinery, compressor plant, absorption plant, bulk plant, pipeline, pipeline pumping station, or reservoir, or any other plant, structure, or works, used for the production, extraction, treatment, handling, storage, or transportation, of oil, gas, gasoline, petroleum, or any product or products thereof;
B. Gas Distribution Facilities. A gas plant, gas storage station, gas meter, gas valve, regulator station, gas odorant station, gas pipeline or appurtenances, or any other property used in the transmission or distribution of gas;
C. Electric Energy Facilities. A reservoir, dam, generating plant, receiving station, distributing station, transformer, transmission line, or any appurtenances used for the storage of water for the generation of hydroelectric power, or for the generation of electricity by water or steam or by any other apparatus or method suitable for the generation of electricity, or for the handling, transmission, reception, or distribution of electric energy;
D. Telephone and Radio Facilities. Plants, structures or facilities used for or in connection with the rendering of telephone or telegraph service or for radio broadcasting;
E. Water Facilities. A water well, dam, reservoir, pumping plant, aqueduct, canal, tunnel, siphon, conduit, or any other structure, facility or conductor for producing, storing, diverting, conserving, treating, or conveying water;
F. Explosives Facilities. The production, storage, or manufacture of munitions, dynamite, black blasting powder, gun powder or other explosives;
G. Railroad Facilities. A railroad right-of-way, railroad bridge, railroad tunnel, railroad shop, railroad yard, or other railroad facility.
(Prior code § 9.48.020 (Ord. 229 § 2, 1940))
Any property described in Section 9.12.020 may be posted against trespassing and loitering, in the following manner:
A. Any such property, if it is not enclosed within a fence and if it is of an area not exceeding one acre and if it has no lineal dimension exceeding one mile, by posting signs at each corner of the area so posted, and at each entrance thereto;
B. Any such property, if it is not enclosed within a fence, and if it is of an area exceeding one acre, or if it contains any lineal dimension exceeding one mile, by posting signs along or near the exterior boundaries of the area so posted at intervals of not more than six hundred feet, and also at each corner thereof and, if such property has a definite entrance or entrances thereto, at each such entrance;
C. Any such property, if it is enclosed within a fence and if it is of an area not exceeding one acre, and if it has no lineal dimension exceeding one mile, by posting signs at each corner of such fence and at each entrance thereto;
D. Any such property, if it is enclosed within a fence and if it is of an area exceeding one acre, or if it has any lineal dimensions exceeding one mile, by posting signs on or along the line of such fence at intervals of not more than six hundred feet, and also at each corner thereof and at each entrance thereto;
E. Any such property, if it consists of poles or towers or appurtenant structures for the suspension of wires or other conductors for conveying electricity or telegraphic or telephonic messages, by affixing a sign upon one or more sides of such poles or towers, but such posting shall render only the pole or tower or appurtenant structure posted property.
(Prior code § 9.48.030 (Ord. 229 § 3, 1940))
Every person is guilty of a misdemeanor who enters or remains upon any posted property without the written permission of the owner, tenant, or occupant in legal possession or control thereof. Every person who so enters or remains upon such posted property without such written permission is guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which he enters or remains upon such posted property.
(Prior code § 9.48.040 (Ord. 229 § 4, 1940))
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