(a) The license required by the preceding section shall be issued and approved by the city’s department of transportation and public works, which may establish the size, type of letters, paint and other particulars of the work to be done. Before the issuance of such license, the applicant shall file in the office of the city’s department of transportation and public works a statement of his or her qualifications, together with a surety company bond in the penal sum of $500, conditioned that such applicant will indemnify and save harmless the city from directly or indirectly by any negligence in the doing of such work or for any imperfect or inadequate work done by the applicant and further conditioned upon compliance with the terms of § 30-14 and this section. All such bonds shall run for a period of one year from date or until revoked as hereinafter provided. A statement of qualifications approved by the city’s department of transportation and public works together with the bond, license number and date of issuance, shall be maintained by the city’s department of transportation and public works.
(b) The applicant shall also state in his or her application for license, his or her place of business and the name and address under which the business is to be transacted. Each licensee shall notify the city’s department of transportation and public works immediately of any and every change of address or style of his or her firm. Such license may be revoked by the city’s department of transportation and public works for violation by the licensee of any provision of § 30-14 or this section or for failure of the licensee to have an approved bond in force at all times as aforesaid. All such licenses shall run for a period of one year from date or until revoked as herein provided.
(c) The licensee shall not permit the use of such license by any person not in his or her employ, nor shall be sublet any work for which a license is issued to him or her to any other person. The licensee shall have such license or a photostatic copy thereof available on the job at all times, and same shall be subject to inspection upon request.
(1964 Code, § 33-20.2) (Ord. 5419, § 1, passed - -; Ord. 19977-11-2011, § 1B, passed 11-15-2011)