§ 13.12.010. Purpose and intent.

A.

The purpose of this section is to help prevent the spread of graffiti and to establish a program for its removal from county-owned property and non-county owned property within the unincorporated area of the county.

B.

California Government Code sections 53069.3 and 38772 authorizes the county, under certain circumstances, to provide for the removal and the summary abatement of graffiti and other inscribed materials from private as well as public property. The board of supervisors finds and determines that graffiti is obnoxious and a public nuisance, as well as an immediate threat to public health and safety, and unless the county causes it to be removed from county-owned and non-county-owned property within the unincorporated area of the county, it tends to remain. Other properties then become the target of graffiti, often accompanied by more violent crime, with the result that entire neighborhoods are affected and become less desirable places in which to be, all to the detriment of the county.

C.

It is the purpose of the board of supervisors of the county of Los Angeles, through the adoption of this chapter, to provide additional enforcement tools to protect public and private property from acts of vandalism and defacement, including the application of graffiti on walls, natural objects and structures. Such acts are destructive of the rights and values of property owners as well as the entire community.

(Ord. 2008-0044 § 5, 2008; Ord. 93-0072 § 1 (part), 1993.)