Refer also to the Land Development Ordinance.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S1]
No person shall post bills or erect, maintain or use billboards,
signs or banners in or upon the streets of the borough, except as
hereinafter permitted.
No person shall post any bills or erect, maintain or use any
billboard or banner in front of or upon any premises, unless the consent
of the owner of such premises is first obtained and a license is granted
by the borough council.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S1]
No billboard license shall be granted unless the person applying
therefore shall first file with the borough clerk an application in
writing accompanied by the consent of the owner of the premises in
front of or upon which the billboard is to be erected, stating the
proposed size, height, location, position and materials of the billboard.
Every billboard shall have conspicuously painted upon it the name
of the person or corporation owning it and to whom a license has been
issued for the same, and no person or company shall post any bill
or place any advertisement upon any such board except the licensed
owner or authorized agents. No license shall be granted until the
construction official shall have approved the application.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S1]
The construction official shall only approve the application
when satisfied that the proposed billboard will be erected so as not
to constitute a menace to public safety, and any license granted hereunder
shall be revoked when the construction official advises the borough
clerk that any billboard is or has become unsafe, and a menace to
public safety.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S1]
Any billboard now existing or hereafter erected shall be removed
or rebuilt within ten (10) days after notice by the construction official
to the owner thereof that the same is unsafe and condemned.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S1]
No sign shall be hung or permitted to hang over the sidewalk
on any public street except with the consent of the borough council,
which shall be revocable at any time.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S2; Ord. #897, SVI]
There shall be charged to each person engaged in or conducting
the business of bill posting, signboard painting or erecting billboards
an annual license tax for revenue, of one hundred ($100.00) dollars.
This license tax shall be paid to the borough clerk before such business
is engaged in or conducted by each person liable thereto, and the
license shall expire on December 31 following the issuance of the
license.
There shall be paid to the borough clerk with the application
to erect a billboard or sign as to each billboard or sign now erected,
a fee of five ($5.00) dollars to cove the expense of inspection and
to raise revenue.
[Ord. 4/21/27, S2]
This chapter shall not apply to signs advertising the property
upon which the same are erected for sale or rent when such signs do
not exceed ten (10) square feet in area.
No advertising banner shall be hung over any street or public
place except for a period of not exceeding thirty (30) days and after
the issuance of a license therefore by the borough clerk upon payment
of a fee of five ($5.00) dollars, which license shall only be issued
with the consent of the borough council. Licenses may be issued to
bill posters by the borough clerk upon payment of the license fee.
