[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Alderman of the City of Derby 9-23-1976
as Ch. 23 of the Charter and Revised Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Zoning — See Ch. 195.
The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed so as to include
signs or bulletin boards erected, maintained or used by any religious, ecclesiastical,
fraternal or charitable society or organization nor to include any temporary
sign, provided that no such signs or bulletin boards shall be erected or maintained
upon the roof of any building except in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter.
No person shall attach to the front of any building and maintain within
the limits of any street or sidewalk any sign, provided that any person, upon
written application to the Building Inspector, which application shall be
approved, in writing, by the owner of the building or property concerned and
which shall contain or be accompanied by a plan or drawing of any proposed
sign, may, subject to the approval of the Building Inspector, maintain a sign
in front of or adjacent to the building where such person transacts his business,
which sign shall be securely fastened to such building or to some other substantial
support. No sign shall project more than three feet beyond the street line.
The bottom of any sign shall be not less than nine feet from the sidewalk.
Each sign or billboard shall be securely attached to posts or other
supporting structure, and each such sign or billboard, with the posts or other
supporting structure for the same, shall be located entirely within the property
lines.
No sign shall be erected, pursuant to § 158-3, until a bond
with surety, or other form of indemnity, satisfactory in amount and kind to
the Mayor, shall be filed with the City Clerk, to indemnify the city from
all liability for damages and costs that may in any way arise out of or be
caused by the construction, maintenance or removal of such sign.
No person shall, without the permission of the Board of Aldermen, erect
or maintain any sign or billboard having an area of advertising of more than
12 square feet, and no such sign or billboard shall be erected or maintained
within any strictly residential section nor within 50 feet of any building
or divisional property line, which space of six feet shall at all times remain
open, nor within 500 feet of any church, school, park, parkway, playground
or the grounds of any municipal building, nor shall any sign or billboard
be erected or maintained in any such position or location as will interfere
with the reasonable view of traffic or people traveling upon the highway so
as to render traveling thereon dangerous because of obstruction of such view.
No sign or billboard shall be erected or maintained within the fire
limits unless the surface of the same used for advertising purposes shall
be constructed entirely of incombustible materials.
No sign or billboard shall be erected upon or over the roof of any building
unless the same is set at least eight feet back from the cornice or wall upon
the street front of such building, and no such sign or billboard shall project
more than 25 feet above the roof of the building upon which the same may be
set, and each sign or billboard so set shall have a space of at least six
feet in height between the bottom of such sign or billboard and that part
of the roof of the building upon which such sign or billboard is set immediately
under such sign or billboard.
No sign or billboard shall be so constructed as to be an obstruction
to the use of any door, window or fire escape in or upon any building, and
any sign or billboard not kept in good condition or repair may be removed
upon the order of the Board of Aldermen.
The maintenance of any sign or billboard in violation of any provision
of this chapter for any period of one week shall be a separate offense.
