1112.02 APPLICABILITY.

   (a)   Permit Required. No sign shall be erected, altered , or relocated, and no sign's face shall be changed without an application being made and without a permit being issued by the Building Department.

      (1)   Within ninety (90) days from the effective date of Ordinance 110-71 (passed May 16, 1972), application for permits shall be made for all signs presently erected whether or not a permit has been previously issued.

      (2)   The application shall be submitted in the same form as that required for a new sign.

      (3)   If the application is made within the ninety (90) days specified in subparagraph (1). hereof, no additional fee shall be collected.

   (b)   Compliance. It shall hereafter be unlawful to erect, place, relocate, expand, modify, maintain, or otherwise alter a sign that is visible from a public right-of-way or an adjacent property, in any zoning district, in the City except in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

   (c)   Permit Required. Unless otherwise provided by this chapter, all signs shall require a zoning permit.

   (d)   Non-Conforming Signs. Any sign established prior to the effective date of this code, and which is rendered nonconforming by the provisions herein, shall be subject to the nonconforming sign regulations of Section 1121.03 - Nonconforming Signs.

(Ord. 081-2023. Passed 10-3-23.)