1343.01 Definitions.
1343.02 Permit required and fee.
1343.03 Size and location.
1343.04 Attaching and supporting requirements.
1343.05 Hanging equipment requirements.
1343.06 Inspection.
1343.07 Construction; wind pressure.
1343.08 Unsafe or insecure signs.
1343.09 Signs and banners across streets; permit and fee. (Repealed)
1343.10 Removal of signs after discontinuance of business.
1343.11 Enforcement by Chief Building Official; sign removal.
CROSS REFERENCES
Encroachments - see BLDG. 1345.01
As used in this chapter, certain terms are defined as follows:
(a) "Projecting sign" means any letter, work, model, sign, device, or representation used in the nature of advertisement, announcement or direction, extending over the sidewalk beyond the property line at the street or alley more than eighteen inches.
(b) “Electric signs” mean the bulb or neon type, and do not include box glass, transparent or hooded or reflector types, commonly known as commercial signs. (1964 Code §701.15)
No person who is the owner, lessee or custodian of a projecting sign, shall erect or hang, or allow to be erected or hung, any such projecting sign without first having obtained a permit from the Building Department. The Building Department shall charge a fee for each permit, which shall be good for one sign only. Nonelectric signs up to six square feet and temporary cloth signs, other than those embraced in Section 1343.09, shall not require a permit. Such temporary cloth signs shall not be left up over sixty days.
(1964 Code §701.16)
No projecting sign shall project further than the inside of the curb line or be less than eight feet above the sidewalk, nor project beyond the property line at the street or alley more than six and one-half feet measured from the property line of the street or alley at a point eight feet above the sidewalk, except that such sign may project an additional two and one-half inches for each additional foot of height above the sidewalk. However, in no case shall such sign project more than eight and one-half feet beyond the property line at the street or alley, nor further than the inside of the curb line. (1964 Code §701.17)
(a) Every projecting sign shall be securely attached to the building wall, structure or suitable metal posts located within the lot lines by iron or metal anchors, bolts, supports, chains, stranded cables or steel rods. The minimum size cable for head and side guys or iron wire, number fourteen American Standard, trade size. No such sign shall be supported from the street or sidewalk.
(b) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to prohibit the erection of a sign on a lawnstrip which is at least eighteen feet in width, between the curb and the nearest edge of the sidewalk, so long as such sign is a center-post type, no larger than four feet in width by eight feet in height and so long as the post is not less than eight feet distant from both the curb and the inside edge of the sidewalk, and not less than twenty-five feet distant from the curb of the nearest intersection street. (1964 Code § 701.18)
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