86-024 ORD PROVIDING CODE OF ORDINANCES BE AMENDED BY REVISING CHAPTER 26 1/2 OF SAID CODE

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Sec. 262-16. Sign contractor's license. No person shall install, erect, or maintain any sign, nor contract for such service, until such person has applied to the building inspector 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 $25.00 per year payable on the first day of July of each year and an additional fee of $10.00 per year for each renewal thereof. The license of any sign contractor may be cancelled by the city council, upon the recommendation of the building inspector, when such contractor persistently violates the requirements of this chapter. Conviction, whether appealed or not of 3 such violations over a period of 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 26 2-17 . Sec. 262-17. Sign contractor's bond and liability irisurance. 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 $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 year after erecrion 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 which the principal named in the bond is legally liable. When any sign contractor's license has been cancelled as provided by section 262-16, such license shall not be renewed until the contractor furnishes an additional bond in the amount of $1,000.00, guaranteeing compliance with the provisions of this chapter, which bond shall be for a period of two years following renewal of the license. In addition to the above bond, each contractor shall carry public liabiZity insurance in a company to be approved the city attorney with minimum limits as follows: $100,000.00 each person, $300,000.00 each accident or occasion for bodily injury and $100,000.00 for property damage arising out of any one accident or occasion.