Every person engaging in the business of advertising upon any street, doorway or vacant lot by means of music, speech, entertainment or sound device shall pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars per day.
(Prior code § 6-200)
Note: For further provisions regarding advertising materials, see Chapter 9.32, Handbills.
Every person engaging in the business of advertising by searchlight shall pay a license fee in the amount of five dollars per day per instrument. No fee shall be charged where the instrument is owned by a duly licensed locally established place of business and is used to advertise that business only.
(Prior code § 6-201)
A.
License Fee. Every person hiring, owning or in control of a sound or advertising vehicle used or operated on any street shall pay a license fee of twenty-five dollars per day for each vehicle so used; provided, however, that no license fee shall be charged for the use or operation of any such sound or advertising vehicle exclusively for political purposes during any political campaign with respect to any election at which registered voters residing within the city are eligible to vote.
B.
Permit Required. No person owning, hiring or in control of a sound or advertising vehicle shall use or operate such vehicle on any street without first obtaining a permit to do so from the city manager and chief of police.
C.
Grounds for Refusal of Permit. The permit may be denied if:
1.
The proposed use or operation of such vehicle upon the streets or ways or within the areas described in the application, at the times mentioned therein, would tend to create or increase traffic congestion or delay, or to constitute an undue hazard to life, limb or property; or
2.
The noise of the sound equipment proposed to be used would be likely to drown out the sound of traffic signals or the sirens or horns of emergency vehicles, or other lawful traffic warnings, or be likely to harass or distract pedestrians or the drivers of other vehicles, to their danger or to the danger of others, or be likely to disturb the rest and quiet of people in their homes and dwelling places; or
3.
The noise of the sound equipment proposed to be used would be likely to unreasonably harass or annoy pedestrians, or persons in adjacent buildings; or
4.
The use of the vehicle as applied for would be likely to incite riots, breaches of the peace, or other disturbances.
(Prior code § 6-202)
A.
License Fee. Every person engaging in the business of outdoor advertising or billposting shall pay a license fee of fifty dollars per year; provided, however, that any person who places, erects, constructs or maintains an advertising display used exclusively to advertise the sale, lease or exchange of any real property upon which such display is placed, or to designate the name of the owner or occupant of any premises, or to identify any premises upon which such display is placed, or to advertise the business conducted or services rendered or the goods produced or sold upon the property upon which such display is placed, shall not be required to obtain a license or pay a license fee therefor.
B.
Noncombustible Surface Required. No person engaged in the business of outdoor advertising or billposting shall post, paste, stick, affix, tack or otherwise fasten any cloth, paper or cardboard banner, handbill, poster, sign or notice upon any wooden-faced advertising structure, fence, enclosure, bulkhead or other frame structure, except where a surface of metal or other noncombustible material has been provided.
(Prior code § 6-203)
A.
Permit and License Fee. No person shall engage in the business of distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills for hire without obtaining a permit to do so. Every person engaging in the business of distributing commercial handbills for hire shall pay a license fee of two hundred dollars per year or twenty dollars per day; provided, however, that persons acting as agents and employees of permittees or licensees hereunder in the distributing of handbills shall not be required to obtain a permit or license or pay a license fee, but each such person shall comply with the provisions of this code covering the distribution of handbills. Applications shall comply with Chapter 5.14; provided, however, that said license fee shall not be payable when such distribution is made as an incident to the conducting of any business regularly licensed hereunder by employees of such business.
B.
Exemptions. The provisions of this section shall not be deemed applicable to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor to newspapers. "Newspaper" means and includes any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with federal statute or regulation, and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer as provided by general law; and, in addition thereto, means and includes any periodical, current magazine or newspaper regularly published and circulated in the city containing general news information.
(Prior code § 6-204)