(A) Contractor’s license.
(1) No person except a licensed sign contractor shall engage in the business of manufacturing, installing, erecting, repairing, painting, altering, servicing or removing signs.
(2) Employees of duly-licensed sign contractors shall not be required to obtain a license or pay a fee in order to engage in the work of manufacturing, installing, erecting, repairing, painting, altering, servicing or removing signs in the regular course of their employment.
(3) No such license shall be issued until the person applying for it pays to the Town Clerk-Treasurer the fee established in the general schedule of fees in § 156.04 of this chapter.
(B) Contractor’s bond.
(1) No sign contractor’s license shall be issued until the applicant therefor shall have deposited with the Town Clerk-Treasurer a surety bond in the sum of $5,000, to be known as the “sign contractor’s bond.” The bond shall be executed by the sign contractor, and the surety thereon shall be a corporate surety company authorized to do business in the state.
(2) The bond shall be in the favor of the town and conditioned that the licensee shall faithfully and properly conduct his or her business in compliance with the laws and ordinances of the town relating to signs and sign contractors, and for the payment of all fines and penalties imposed by a violation of such laws and for the protection and indemnification of the town against all damages resulting directly or indirectly from any injury to persons or property on account of the negligence or unskilled work of the licensee.
(3) The bond shall be renewed annually, and no person shall engage in the business of sign contractor unless the bond as provided in this section is on file with the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(Prior Code, § 9-404) (Ord. 2018-04, passed 7-18-2018) Penalty, see § 156.99