Part 8 — Uniform Sign Code

For the purpose of providing minimum standards to safeguard life, health, property, and the public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, quality, materials, construction, location, electrification, and maintenance of all signs and sign structures within the City not located within buildings, that certain Code designated as the "Uniform Building Code, Volume V, Signs, 1967 Edition," published by the International Conference of Building Officials, three copies of which are on file in the office of the City Clerk for public record and inspection, is hereby adopted by reference and made a part of this article as though set forth in this article in full, subject, however, to the amendments, additions, and deletions set forth in this article, and said Code shall be known as the Sign Code for the City.

(§ II, Ord. 771, eff. December 4, 1987, as amended by § 245, Ord. 1095, eff. November 20, 2010)

Any person violating any of the provisions of this article or of the Sign Code, or who shall fail to comply with any provision thereof, or who shall violate or fail to comply with any order made thereunder, or build in violation of any detailed statement of specifications or plans submitted and approved thereunder, or any certificate or permit issued thereunder, and from which no appeal has been taken, or who shall fail to comply with such an order as affirmed or modified by the Council or by a court of competent jurisdiction within the time fixed therein, for each and every separate violation and noncompliance, respectively, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punishable as set forth in Chapter 2 of Title 1 of this Code. The imposition of one penalty for any violation of the provisions of this article or the Sign Code shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue, and any such person violating the provisions of this article or the Sign Code shall be required to correct or remedy such violation or defect within a reasonable time, and, when not otherwise specified, each 10 days prohibitive conditions are maintained shall constitute a separate offense. The application of the penalties set forth in this section shall not be held to prevent the enforced removal of prohibitive conditions.

(§ II, Ord. 771, eff. December 4, 1987, as amended by § 247, Ord. 1095, eff. November 20, 2010)