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 work to be done unless the person shall first have obtained a sign contractor’s license from the Administrator and pay the license fee set by the City Council by resolution from time to time, or shall be represented by a duly licensed agent or sub-contractor; provided, however, that this shall not include the placement of the standard real estate, for sale, lease or identification sign.
(Title VII, Ch. 17, § 7.1) Penalty, see § 158.999