No permit shall be granted unless it appears:
(A) That such billboard, signboard, sign, banner, poster or advertisement is constructed of incombustible material, is not in the immediate vicinity of any exposed electric wires and will not constitute a fire hazard;
(B) That such billboard, signboard, sign, banner, poster or advertisement shall be constructed, erected, posted, placed, hanged, displayed and maintained in a secure a safe manner and will not constitute a physical hazard or endanger the health and safety of the public;
(C) That such billboard, signboard, sign, banner, poster or advertisement shall contain nothing offensive to public morals or decency;
(D) That such billboard, signboard, sign, banner, poster or advertisement, will upon its use being fulfilled, at once be removed by the person, firm or corporation constructing, erecting, posting, placing, hanging, displaying or maintaining same; and
(E) That such billboard, signboard, sign, banner, poster or advertisement, upon becoming unsafe, insecure, hazardous, dangerous, readily combustible, unsanitary or deemed obscene, will be immediately removed, or made safe, secure, sanitary, inoffensive and put into proper condition. For the purpose of this division (E), material is OBSCENE when the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by applicable law; and the work taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value.
(Prior Code, § 152.02) (Ord. 152, passed 6-6-1936)