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(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)
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Section 1343.09 was repealed by Ordinance 54-2001, passed April 2, 2001.)
(a) No person who is the owner, user or custodian of any kind of sign shall permit such sign or its supports to be suspended over public sidewalks or public property longer than thirty days after the discontinuance of the business at such location, or of such purpose which the sign had advertised.
(b) If the owner, user or custodian of a sign suspended over public sidewalks or public property fails to remove such sign within the allotted thirty days after such business or purpose has been discontinued, then the owner of the building or lessee of that part of the building or property, to which such sign is attached, shall immediately remove such sign.
(1964 Code §701.24)
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