This chapter shall not be construed to relieve from or lessen the responsibility of any person owning, building, altering, constructing or moving any sign in the city for damages to anyone injured or damaged either to person or property by any defect therein; nor shall the city, or any agent thereof, be held as assuming such liability by reason of a permit or inspection authorized in this chapter or a certificate of inspection issued by the city or any of its agents.
(Ord. 1896 § 2 (part), 1999)