[Code 1964, § 3-4]
(a)
Required; application. Before any person erects or causes to be erected
any poster panel, painted bulletin or signboard in the city, the person
shall first make application for a license to do so, upon a blank
furnished by the commissioner of codes enforcement, and the applicant
shall give any reasonable information which may be required.
(b)
Issuance. Upon the payment of the license fee as provided in this
section, the city clerk shall issue to the applicant a license to
be known and designated as the "business of outdoor advertising license,"
and the issuance of the license shall entitle the holder to carry
on the business of outdoor advertising under the regulations and provisions
of this chapter.
(c)
Duration; fee. The license fee is imposed on the first day of each
calendar year, and the amount of the fee shall be $25 per annum. The
term of the license shall be one year.
(d)
Contents. Each license issued shall state the name of the outdoor
advertiser, the location of the place of business, the date of issuance,
the amount received for the license, the date of expiration of the
license and shall refer to this chapter and be signed by the city
clerk.
(e)
Exceptions. This section shall not apply to signboards attached to
the surface of a permanent building and designed to give publicity
to any business carried on in the building or to signs used to advertise
the sale or lease of the property upon which they shall be erected.
(f)
Applicability to legal notice. The provisions of this section shall
not be construed as applying to the posting of legal notice by public
officers in the performance of a public duty in the manner and in
the places prescribed by law.
[Code 1964, § 3-18]
(a)
No person shall engage in the business of outdoor advertising by
the means of roof signboards, wall bulletins or commercial signs within
the corporate limits until the provisions of this article are complied
with and until after the person has filed with the commissioner of
codes enforcement a certificate of insurance indicating that a contractor's
public liability insurance policy has been issued either to the manufacturer
or to a contractor engaged in the business of outdoor advertising
or the erection of signs as set forth in this article or to the property
owner indicating that the person has taken out public liability insurance.
(b)
The amounts of insurance shall include public liability insurance
in an amount not less than $100,000 for injuries, including wrongful
death, to any one person and subject to the same limit for each person,
in an amount not less than $300,000 for any one accident and property
damage insurance in an amount not less than $50,000 in aggregate.
The insurance policy shall be approved by the corporation counsel
of the city as to form and amount. The policy shall name the city
as an additional insured.
