(A) Required. No person shall erect or maintain signs or engage in the erection and maintenance of signs within the city without first having procured a license to do so. No person shall cause or permit any sign to be erected, placed, painted, pasted, printed, stamped, or raised unless it has been so done by a person licensed under the provisions of this chapter, and the permit required by this chapter has been properly obtained from the city as provided in this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 127.04)
(B) Application. Applications for a sign erector’s license shall be made in conformity with the general licensing provisions of this code. The applicant and application must be approved by the Building Commissioner before they can be considered by the City Controller.
(Prior Code, § 127.05)
(C) Qualifications of applicants. All licensees under this chapter must be persons with sufficient knowledge, experience, and equipment to satisfy the Building Commissioner as to the applicant’s ability to erect signs in a safe and substantial manner in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
(Prior Code, § 127.06)
(D) Fees; duration; transferability. The annual license fee under the provisions of this chapter shall be $50. The fee for the full year must be paid in advance. No license shall be granted for a period less than one year, and the license shall be nontransferable.
(Prior Code, § 127.07)
(E) Bond. Every person applying for a license under this chapter as a sign erector in the city shall, before receiving a license, execute a surety bond payable to the city in the penal sum of $5,000, to indemnify, save, and keep harmless the city from any and all costs, damages, and expenses whatsoever which may be suffered by the city or which the city may be put to or which may accrue against the city by charging to or recovering from the city from or by reason of the granting of permission to erect the signs or by reason of any acts or things done under or by authority or permission granted by the city to erect the signs in the city or by reason of negligence, failure, or refusal of any person to comply with the provisions of this chapter applicable to signs. The bond shall provide that the licensee will conform to all provisions of this chapter. The bond shall also indemnify the public against loss or damage to property and injury or death of persons by reason of the negligence of the licensee. The bond must be kept in full force during all times in which the person shall engage in the erection and maintenance of signs within the city.
(Prior Code, § 127.08)
Penalty, see § 10.999