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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)
No projecting electric sign of any description shall be erected or hung without having first been inspected or approved by the
Chief Building Official
or his authorized deputies. It shall be the duty of the owner or user of such electric signs to notify the
Chief Building Official
when such sign is ready for the inspection, and no person shall erect or hang such sign until such inspection or approval has been given and the permit required by Section 1343.02 has been issued.
(1964 Code §701.20)
Should any projecting sign, roof sign or any other kind of sign be or become, insecure, in danger of falling or otherwise unsafe, the owner or the person using or maintaining the sign, shall proceed at once to put such sign in a safe and secure condition or remove the same.
(1964 Code §701.22)
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