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should find any sign or billboard to be in an unsafe condition he shall immediately <br />call it to the attention of the owner or other person in charge thereof. Upon receipt <br />of such notice from the building official, the owner or person in charge shall have <br />ten (10) days thereafter to correct such unsafe condition and upon failure to <br />correct the defect or defects called to his attention by the building official he will <br />be subject to the penal provision of this Code. <br />Sec. 28 -15. Identification marking required. <br />All signs shall bear the name of the contractor and date of erection painted <br />on or otherwise attached to the lower margin of the sign. <br />Sec. 28 -16. Sign contractor's license. <br />(a) No person shall install, erect, or maintain any sign, nor contract for such <br />service, until such person has applied to the building official for a license to install, <br />erect, and maintain signs, and until such license has been approved and issued. The <br />fee for such license shall be twenty -five dollars ($25.00) per year payable on the <br />first day of July of each year and an additional fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per year <br />for each renewal thereof. <br />(b) The license of any sign contractor may be cancelled by the city council, upon <br />the recommendation of the building official, when such contractor persistently <br />violates the requirements of this chapter. Conviction, whether appealed or not, of <br />three (3) such violations over a period of two (2) calendar years shall constitute <br />evidence of persistent violation. Any license thus cancelled shall not be renewed <br />for such contractor or anyone operating his shop until all such violations have <br />been corrected. Upon correction of the violations, the contractor's license may be <br />renewed upon furnishing the bond required by section 28 -17. <br />Sec. 28 -17. Sign contractor's bond and liability insurance. <br />No license for the installation, erection and maintenance of signs shall be <br />issued to any person nor shall any person install, erect, or maintain any sign or <br />medium of display or advertising, electric or otherwise, until such person has filed <br />with the city clerk, a surety bond in the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). <br />Such bond shall be approved by the building official and city attorney and shall be <br />conditioned for the installation and erection of signs in accordance with the <br />provisions of this Code, ordinances of the City and the laws of the state, and shall <br />provide for the indemnification of the City for any and all damages or liability <br />which may accrue against it by reason of faulty installation, erection, demolition, <br />repair, removal or defects in, or collapse of, any sign for a period of one (1) year <br />after erection and for such period of time that such sign is maintained or serviced <br />by or under the direction of the maker of such bond. Such bond shall further <br />provide for the indemnification of any person, who shall, while upon public <br />property or in any public place, incur damage for the principal named in the bond <br />Page 20 of 36 <br />