City of Philadelphia - File #: 090712

• File #: 090712
• Version: 0
• Type: Bill
• Status: ENACTED
• File created: 10/8/2009
• In control: Committee on Streets and Services
• Final action: 11/19/2009
• Title: Amending Section 9-211 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material," by amending certain specifications for publishers' boxes, increasing licensing fees, amending permissible locations and increasing fines, all under certain terms and conditions.
• Sponsors: Councilmember DiCicco
• Code sections: 9-211 - Boxes for the Distribution of Printed Material

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/1/2009	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
11/19/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	READ
11/19/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	17:0
11/5/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON THIS DAY`S FIRST READING CALENDAR
11/5/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	SUSPEND THE RULES OF THE COUNCIL	Pass
11/5/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	ORDERED PLACED ON NEXT WEEK`S SECOND READING CALENDAR
10/29/2009	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/29/2009	0	Committee on Streets and Services	HEARING HELD
10/29/2009	0	Committee on Streets and Services	REPORTED FAVORABLY, RULE SUSPENSION REQUESTED
10/8/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced	Pass
10/8/2009	0	CITY COUNCIL	Referred

Title
Amending Section 9-211 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material," by amending certain specifications for publishers' boxes, increasing licensing fees, amending permissible locations and increasing fines, all under certain terms and conditions.
Body
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:

SECTION 1. Section 9-211 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended to read as follows:

§9-211. Boxes for the Distribution of News and Printed Material.

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(3) Specifications for Publishers' Boxes.

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(c) Secure and safe placement. No person shall place, maintain or operate a publishers' box on the public sidewalk unless such box is in compliance with the following:

(.1) Each publishers' box must be sufficiently weighted to be secure in all expected weather conditions.

(.2) No publishers' box shall be attached to any utility pole, traffic or parking sign or device, trash receptacle, fire hydrant, directional sign, bicycle rack, or other utility pole, fixture or any piece of street furniture.

(.3) No publishers' box shall be placed or maintained within 3 feet of the edge of a driveway, marked pedestrian crosswalk or curb cut; or within 5 feet of a sign designating a regular bus stop.

(.4) No publishers' box shall be placed or maintained within 3 feet of a fire hydrant.

(.5) No publishers' box shall be placed or maintained in any space so as to reduce the width of the pedestrian passageway on the sidewalk to less than 4 feet.

(.6) [No two publishers' boxes displaying or offering the same publication for sale or distribution may be placed or maintained within thirty (30) feet of one another, unless such publishers' boxes are across the street from one another; provided, however, that no more than three publisher...