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Editor's Note: For law of the commonwealth as to signs and
other structures projecting over ways, see MGL c. 85, §§ 8,
9.
No person, except as otherwise provided by law, shall place
or maintain or cause or allow to be placed or maintained a sign, advertising
device, clock, marquee, permanent awning and other like structures
projecting into or over a public way, without first obtaining a permit
therefor from the City Council to be exercised under the supervision
of the Commissioner of Public Works.
[1-11-66; Ord. of 2-9-1982]
Each application for a permit required by this article shall
be made on a form furnished by the Commissioner of Public Services
and shall be signed by either the occupant or owner or other person
in control of the premises, in connection with which the same are
to be attached or placed and shall be accompanied by a bond of a surety
company or liability insurance policy satisfactory to the city solicitor
in the sum of $1,000 for each injury and $300,000 in the aggregate
renewed annually, to indemnify the city against any and all claims
for personal injury, including death, or property damage in any way
resulting from the placing, maintaining, construction or removal of
such sign, advertising device, clock, marquee, permanent awning or
other like structure.
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State law reference: Commonwealth law limiting liability for
defects in ways, G. L., C. 84, § 15.
The city council shall have the power to revoke or cancel any
permit issued under this article for failure to comply with any of
the terms, requirements or provisions of this section or regulations
or orders issued hereunder for reasons of public safety, health or
welfare.
[1-11-66]
No person shall allow to remain or place over any sidewalk,
in front of any building any sign, advertising device, clock, marquee
or other like structure less than 10 feet in height above the sidewalk
at the lowest part thereof or a permanent awning less than seven feet
in height above the sidewalk at the lowest part thereof, nor shall
any such structure extend beyond the sidewalk unless same is a decorative
street device for Christmas season.
All structures regulated by this article shall in all respects
conform to any regulation or order of the commissioner of public works
in relation to the location, height, extent, construction and maintenance
thereof.
The article shall not be construed so as to compel the alteration
or removal of any sign, advertising device, clock, marquee, permanent
awning or other like structure which was legally erected or placed
prior to December 28, 1954.
