(a) No person shall engage or continue in the business of outdoor advertising in the city without first obtaining a license therefor from the City; and no person shall construct, erect, operate, use, maintain, lease or sell any outdoor advertising structure, outdoor advertising sign or outdoor advertisement in the City without first obtaining such a license from the City. The fee for such license, hereby imposed for revenue for the use of the City, shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars ($125.00), payable in advance, for licensees obtaining up to twenty permits. Licensees, including subsidiaries and affiliates, obtaining twenty-one or more permits shall pay an annual fee of one thousand dollars ($1,000), payable in advance. Applications for licenses or renewal of licenses shall be made on forms furnished by the City, shall contain such pertinent information as the City may require and shall be accompanied by the annual fee. Licenses granted under this section shall expire on June 30 of each year and shall not be prorated. Applications for the renewal of licenses shall be made not less than thirty days prior to the date of expiration. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any person to obtain a license who constructs, erects, operates, uses or maintains an outdoor advertising structure, outdoor advertising sign or outdoor advertisement solely on his own property, as herein provided.
(b) The City shall have authority, after thirty days' notice in writing to the licensee, to revoke any license granted by it upon repayment of a proportionate part of the license fee, in any case where it shall find that any material information required to be given in the application for the license is knowingly false or misleading or that the licensee has violated any of the provisions of this article, unless such licensee shall, before the expiration of such thirty days, correct such false or misleading information and comply with the provisions of this article. Any person whose license is so revoked may, within thirty days from the date of such revocation, appeal from the decision of the City to the circuit court of the county, by presenting to the court or the judge thereof, after five days' notice in writing to the city, an affidavit made by the licensee or by his duly authorized agent or attorney setting forth the fact of such revocation and that the same was without just cause.
(Amended 6-30-08.)