Compton Municipal Code § 19-2 Building Permit Required to Construct or Repair Signs

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601; amended 10-26-2021 by Ord. No. 2339]

No person shall erect, move, alter, change, repair, place, suspend, attach or maintain any advertising structure, cloth or banner sign, or bracket or flange sign without first obtaining a building permit from the Building Official in the manner provided in this section, and in the event any advertising structure is energized or serviced by electricity a separate electrical permit shall be obtained as required by Chapter 15, Construction Codes.

Repainting of an advertising structure or the changing of copy thereon while such structure remains in place shall not require the issuance of a permit.

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601.1]

Any person desiring a permit as required hereby shall file with the Building Official an application therefor in writing on a blank form to be furnished for that purpose. Every such application for such permit shall describe the land or the building upon which the advertising structure is erected or located, or upon which the proposed advertising structure is to be erected or located, by lot and block, or by street number, or other means which readily will identify the existing or proposed location of the advertising structure for which the permit is sought. Accompanying every application for such a permit, except for a billboard to be erected in accordance with the detailed specifications contained in this section, there shall be filed the plans, drawn to scale and of sufficient clarity to indicate the location, dimensions and engineering design of such structure. All plans for roof signs having an area of 100 square feet or more, and all other advertising structures having an area of 50 square feet or more, and other signs subject to excessive stresses shall be signed by an engineer or architect and calculations and stress diagrams shall be furnished, except when in the opinion of the Building Official the structural nature of the proposed advertising structure does not require such certified plans.

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601.2]

If the plans and specifications are found to be in conformity with the provisions of this section, the Building Official upon receipt of the required fee shall issue a permit.

When the permit is issued the plan submitted with the application shall be stamped "Approved" and a set of the approved plans shall be kept on the work at all times and no changes, alterations, or modifications shall be made thereon and the advertising structure shall be erected or the work done thereon in conformity therewith, unless authorization to the contrary is obtained from the Building Official.

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601.3; amended 10-26-2021 by Ord. No. 2339]

Before a permit is issued under this section, a permit fee therefore shall be paid to the Building Official, according to the table set forth in Chapter 15, Construction Codes.

Whenever any work, for which a permit is required under the provisions of this section, has been commenced without a permit therefor having been issued, the fees above specified shall be doubled, in order to cover the cost of investigation of the work. The payment of such double fee shall not relieve any person from compliance with the provisions of this Code or from any penalty prescribed by law.

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601.4]

If the work authorized to be done under any permit issued pursuant to this section is not commenced within 60 days from the date of issuance of such permit, such permit shall become null and void and the fee paid therefor by the applicant shall be forfeited.

[Added by Ord. #884, § 8601.5]

The issuance or granting of a permit pursuant to this section shall not authorize nor be an approval of any violation of any of the provisions of this Code, and the Building Official is hereby authorized to stop the work on any advertising structure which is being carried on in violation of this Code.