(a) No person shall perform any work or service for any person or for any government entity for compensation, in or in connection with the erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, improvement, maintenance, conversion or manufacture of any sign in the City, or any work or service in connection with causing any such work to be done unless such person or his employer has first obtained a sign contractor's license from the Administrator and paid the license fees provided for by the City, or shall be represented by a duly licensed agent or subcontractor.
(b) Before any manufacturer can engage in the manufacturing of an electrical sign, he must demonstrate the ability to issue the Underwriters' Laboratory (48) electrical label pertinent to electric signs, electrical sign specification or some similar electrical labeling requirement.
(c) Application. All prospective applicants for the sign contractor's license must first pass a test which will be offered on or about June 1 and December 1 of each year.
(1) An application for a license shall be made in writing upon blanks furnished by the Administrator which application shall contain the following:
A. Name of such applicant;
B. The name under which such sign shop is doing business;
C. The name of the owner thereof,
D. If a partnership, the names of the partners thereof,
E. If a corporation, the names of the officers thereof,
F. The address of such sign shop;
G. The kind of work in which such shop is engaged; and
H. The length of time so engaged prior to the date of application.
(2) Nothing herein shall be construed to mean that any shop shall be required to secure separate licenses for each class of work mentioned.
(3) On the filing of such application, upon passing the written examination and upon payment of the registration fee and qualifying as herein provided, the Administrator shall issue to such applicant a license which shall bear the following:
A. A number, consecutive in order of issuance;
B. The date of issuance and expiration thereof;
C. The name and address of such shop or office; and
D. The name of the owner thereof.
(d) Expiration.
(1) The original registration fee and its subsequent annual renewal shall be for the year of registration or any fraction thereof.
(2) Registrations issued in accordance with this chapter shall expire at 12:00 p.m., local time, on December 31, but may be renewed for the next succeeding year period by payment of the annual renewal fee on or before close of business, January 31, of the next succeeding year.
(3) If a person holding a valid registration under the provisions of this chapter in any year fails to renew such license before the annual renewal fee is due, as provided for in subsection (2) hereof, shall be considered a new applicant and must pay the original registration fee.
(4) Any such person, firm or corporation, his or its successors or assigns who are now engaged in a business in the City, which is regulated by the terms and conditions of this chapter, and certificate of registration, and has been so engaged continuously in the City in such business for a period of one year prior to the passage of this chapter, shall not be required to pay the original registration fee but shall be registered at the regular rate of the annual renewal fee.
(3) Fees.
Original license $200.00
Annual renewal $ 140.00
(Ord. 629-04. Passed 10-5-04.)