2008-021-ORD-AMENDING CHAPTER 28, SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS, OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF PARIS, TEXAS; PROVINDING FOR REVISED ADN EXPANDED DEFINITIONS;

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