[Ord. 6 S+FF, 9-17-2003, § 1]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ADVERTISING STRUCTURE
Shall mean and include fences, billboards, signboards, poster
advertising boards, signs and sign structures of all kinds erected,
placed or painted upon the ground or upon the roofs of buildings or
on the sides of buildings or any other structures used for advertising
purposes.
[Ord. 6 S+FF, 9-17-2003 § 1]
a. No person shall erect or construct or shall maintain a billboard,
signboard or poster advertising board already erected or hereafter
to be erected in the City without first obtaining a license as hereinafter
provided and paying therefor an annual licensed fee for each square
foot of advertising space, provided that the minimum annual license
fee shall be $25.
b. The license requirement of this section shall not apply to any person
who operates or maintains any such billboard or advertising structure
on his own premises only for the purpose of advertising his own business.
c. Before any billboard, sign or structure for advertising purposes
shall be erected, applications for a permit therefor must be made
to the License and Permits Office on a blank form prepared and furnished
by the City. Such application shall give the name and post office
address of the applicant, size and dimensions of the billboard, the
location or proposed location of the billboard, the name of the owner
of the land and such other information as the License and Permits
Office may require to locate such billboard and to show a compliance
with the provisions of this chapter.
d. The Office of License and Permits may issue the permit and annual
license, or either, specified in this chapter after approval thereof
shall be given by a Building Inspector and after payment of the required
fee.
e. Any person, partnership, firm or corporation who or which owns, leases,
maintains or erects a sign or signs in the City of Newark for hire,
lease or rent, either upon or attached to a building or upon public
or private ground property, shall obtain a license therefor upon payment
of an annual fee on or before January 1 of each year. The annual fee
for such license shall be $1 per square foot for every advertising
structure owned, leased or erected.
f. All licenses issued hereunder shall be for the calendar year and
shall expire on December 31 of the year for which issued, unless sooner
revoked.
g. Annually, on or before the first day of January in each year, beginning
with the calendar year succeeding that in which the original permit
and license were granted, each licensee under this chapter shall pay
the annual license fee specified for all advertising structures proposed
to be erected or maintained by such person during the current calendar
year.
h. Licenses issued under this chapter shall not be transferable.
i. Licenses and permits issued under this chapter shall be subject to
the ordinances and regulations of the City and State statutes.
j. Every permit and license issued under this chapter shall be revocable
at any time on written notice given by the License and Permits Office
to the applicant who has secured the same.
k. Every sign, device or advertising structure theretofore authorized
under any such permit or license shall, on such revocation, be forthwith
removed on three days' written notice to the person who has erected
or who is maintaining the same.
l. In case of failure so to do, the City shall remove the same at any
time after said three days shall have expired, at the expense of the
person who theretofore erected or who is then maintaining such sign,
device or structure.
The grounds for revocation of any such permit or license shall
be a violation of the terms of this chapter or other applicable provisions
of this chapter or a violation of the building standards of the City
or of any other applicable ordinance of the City. No such revocation
shall be made unless the grounds thereof are stated in the notice
to be given as herein provided, and then only after a hearing before
the aforesaid License and Permits Office, provided that any such revocation
or removal shall not relieve any violator of this chapter from the
fines and penalties provided herein.
Any person, partnership, corporation or entity violating any
of the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not exceeding
$1,000 for each and every violation of this chapter, and each day
shall be a separate and distinct violation thereof.