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INTE FEEI E MEMORANDUM
Matty Hirai Decemher 13, 1988
City Clerk
Campaign Signs in the Public
Right of Way
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This is in reply to your request for information concerning
removal of campaign/political signs from the public right of
way. The City Code, in Sections 54-8 and 54-9 prohibits the
use of the public right of way for advertising or display
purposes.
This department, as part of the regular Code Enforcement
procedures, routinely removes political signs from the right
of way. Additionally, the Operations Division devotes a
considerable amount of manpower to the same task. In the
past, it has been calculated that the cost of this process to
the City is in the neighborhood of $1.00 per sign. Last
year, the Operations Division alone removed approximately
40,300 signs.
The adhesive used on certain signs makes them extremely
difficult to remove. These signs end up defacing the surface
onto which they are mounted because they tend to fall apart
as they are pulled off in the cleaning effort.
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cc: Sergio Rodriguez, Asst. City Manager
Erno Rosa, Assit. Director
POLITICAL CAMPAIGN SIGNS
SECTION 33-99 E METROPOLITAN DADE COU CODE PROVIDES THE
FOLLOWING REGULATI N SIGNS;
Section 33-99 Special Events Signs
(a) Regulations. Signs advertising special events,
such as carnivals, concerts, public meetings, sports
events, political campaigns or other uses of a
similar nature shallbe c-lassified as Class A temporary
signs and shall not exceed twenty-two by twenty-eight
inches in size except as to site of use, which shall
be as hereinafter provided. Such signs shall not be
closer than five feet to an official right-of-way and
five feet to property under different ownership.
Except as to site of use, which shall be as hereinafter
provided, the number of signs will be unlimited.
Such signs shall be removed not later than thirty days
after the special event or last election in which the
candidate or issue was on the ballot.
(b) Responsibility for compliance. Promoters, sponsors
and candidates shall be responsible for compliance with
the provisions of this ordinance and shall remove signs
promoting or endorsing their respective special events
or candidacies when such signs are displayed or used
in violation of this ordinance. Additionally any
private property owner who fails to remove an unlawful
special events sign from his or her property shall be
deemed in violation of this ordinance.
(c) Above provisions of this section which require
the removal of signs shall be applicable to both the
unincorporated and incorporated areas of Metropolitan
Dade County, Florida.
10/28/87