A. Sign Painting Or Posting On Existing Buildings Or Billboards: Any person desiring to engage in the act of drawing, painting or posting a sign on any existing building or billboard or signboard surface as covered by this chapter, shall first apply to the city council for a license to do so. Said license shall be in the amount of twenty five dollars ($25.00) per year, except as in subsection B of this section, payable annually on January 1 of each year. The license provided for in this subsection shall be limited to the drawing or painting or posting of signs only.
B. Painting, Erecting And Installing Signs:
1. Any person desiring to engage in the act of painting, erecting, maintaining, repairing, servicing, installing or removing signs, portable signs, billboards or signboards, as covered by this chapter, regardless of size or weight, shall first apply to the city council on an approved application form supplied by the city for a license to do so. The fee for such license is in the amount of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for the first year; thereafter the license shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per year for each year of subsequent renewal. The license provided for in this subsection shall also apply to the drawing or painting of signs and is in lieu of the license in subsection A of this section.
2. The applicant, at the time of applying for license required by this subsection, shall execute and file with the building official (or a specified intergovernmental agency if so designated by the building official) a certificate of insurance written by a company authorized to transact business in the state, in limits of not less than three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000.00) combined single limit to any person and one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000.00) property damage; said certificate to be written on a standard form and carrying an endorsement naming the city and its employees (or the intergovernmental agency designated by the building official) as additional insureds as its interest may appear and conditioned upon the faithful performance of all duties required of such contractor by any ordinances, rules and regulations of the city. It shall be a further condition of said certificate of insurance that the obligator will hold the city (through the specified intergovernmental agency if so designated) harmless from any and all damages sustained by reason of neglect or incompetency on the part of such contractor, his agents or employees in the performance of the work done under a license or permit issued upon the filing of said certificate.
Said certificate of insurance shall be issued by December 31 of each year, and shall be refiled on or before said date for each subsequent year and shall be in continuous full force and effect. It is the intent and purpose of this certificate of insurance to also bind the individual, company, firm, association or partnership, whether it be trade name, corporation or other business association or arrangement with which the principal is associated.
Homeowners working on their principal residence shall be exempt from filing this certificate.
C. Exceptions To License: The licenses required by subsections A and B of this section shall not be required for the following:
1. A sign painted on a building by an owner or lessee on their own property.
2. The installation of a ground sign not exceeding nine (9) square feet in area, advertising the sale or rental of a lot or parcel of property, or job sign, such sign to be located on the premises so advertised.
D. Effective Date Of Fees, Bonds: Any changes contained herein regarding license fees or bonds of sign contractors shall become effective when such fees or bonds next become due, or when new licenses or bonds are required after the effective date hereof. (Ord. 2447, 1-22-1968; amd. Ord. 2521, 3-16-1970; Ord. 3020, 4-9-1979; Ord. 3325, 2-13-1984; Ord. 3587, 10-10-1988; Ord. 4065, 1-3-1995; Ord. 4087, 4-3-1995)