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ARTICLE II. LICENSES AND PERMITS
SIGN shall apply to any panel, painted, printed, plated, etched, routed, screened, cut, formed, etc., either illuminated or not illuminated, advertising or in concert with each other advertising a name(s) of a person, firm, service, event, product or place or having any form of inscription, notice of publicity therein. Included in this definition are SIGNS commonly referred to as posters, placards, show bills, circulars, stickers, billboards and the like.
(Ord. 2499, passed 5-27-1975)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to act as, engage in the business of, to advertise, or to otherwise represent themselves as a Licensed Bonded Sign Hanger in the City of Flint, unless such person, or an authorized representative of such person, firm or corporation, shall have first obtained a license as provided in this ordinance.
(Ord. 2499, passed 5-27-1975)
It shall be unlawful for any person to install, erect, structurally alter, maintain, service, repair, replace, move or remove any sign in the City of Flint for which a permit is required unless the person shall have first obtained a license as herein provided.
(Ord. 2499, passed 5-27-1975)
The City Clerk shall issue to any applicant who has complied with the provisions of this ordinance, and whose application form is approved by the Director of the Division of Building and Safety Inspection, a license for which he is qualified, upon payment of a fee for each year or fraction thereof.
Said fee shall be established from time to time by resolution of the City Council, kept on file by the City Clerk, and contained in Appendix A of the City Code. Applications for renewal must be approved by the Director of Building and Safety Inspection. License fees shall be due and payable on May 1st of each year at the City Clerk’s office and receipts from fees collected shall be credited to the General Fund. Licenses may be revoked by the Director of Building and Safety Inspection for making or causing to be made faulty or dangerous installation, or for failure to obtain a permit for hanging.
(Ord. 2499, passed 5-27-1975; Ord. 3398, passed 2-8-1999)
No license shall be issued unless the applicant shall first deposit with the City Clerk a prepaid policy or certificate of liability insurance to be accepted and approved by the Chief Legal Officer and issued by a company authorized to do business in the State of Michigan, indemnifying the applicant and the City of Flint in the sum of at least one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) for injury or death to one person or three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) for injury or death to more than one person in any one accident and fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) property damage through the operation of the business of sign hanging; the policy of insurance so deposited shall contain a clause obligating the insurance company issuing the same to give ten days’ written notice to the City Clerk before cancellation of the policy or any part thereof, and the license for the operation of the sign hanging business shall expire upon the lapse or termination of the policy of insurance.
(Ord. 2499, passed 5-27-1975)