2072 ORD PROVIDING CODE OF ORDINANCES BE AMENDED BY ADDING NEW CHAPTER PROVIDING FOR REGULATION OF SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS

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Section -16. Sign contractor's license. No person shall install, erect, or maintain any sign, nor contract for such service, until such person has ap- plied 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 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. 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 three (3) such violations over a period of two (2) calendar years shall constitute evi- dence or persistent violation. Any license thus can- celled shall not be renewed for such contractor or any- one 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 _ 17. Section -17. Sign contractor's bond and liability insurance. No license for the installation, erection and main- tenance 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 City Manager and shall be conditioned for the installation an d 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 da- mages or liability which may accrue against it by reason of faulty installation, erection, demolition, repair, re- moval 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 per- son, who shall, while upon public property or in any pub- lic 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 = 16, such license shall not be renewed until the contractor furnishes an additional bond in the amount of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), guaranteeing compliance with the provisions of this chapter, which bond shall be for a period of two (2) years following renewal of the license. In addition to the above bond, each contractor shall carry public liability and property damage insur- ance, in a company to be approved by the City Council, in the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), covering its or his operation hereunder.