§ 6-122. Electrical sign certificate required.

(a)

Every person, before engaging in the business of installing electrical signs or repairing same, must secure an electrical sign certificate from the electrical inspector. Fees shall be as follows:

(1)

Sign certificate shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00).

(2)

Renewal certificates will be twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50) per annum beginning the first day of January, 1970.

(b)

Any person operating under an electrical illumination sign contractor's certificate shall not be permitted to run primary wiring for signs nor to tie to same.

(c)

Any and all electrically illuminated signs must be at least ten (10) feet from the lowest point of the sign to the sidewalk and shall not extend from the building past a point two (2) feet inside the curbline, provided the sign is a safe distance from utility wires. The support means of any electrical sign shall be adequate and subject to the approval of the electrical inspector. All electrical signs shall be connected to a separate circuit or circuits installed in conduit or electrical metallic tubing and not more than one thousand three hundred twenty (1,320) watts shall be allowed on each circuit, provided, however, that portable signs with self-contained transformers and window displays with transformers designed for such, not exceeding two hundred twenty-five (225) watts may be plugged into suitable receptacles.

(d)

When, upon inspection or reinspection, any sign is found to be dangerous or in unsafe condition and the owner or user thereof fails to place such sign in a safe condition after being notified to do so by the electrical inspector within the time limit specified by him, the electrical inspector shall remove such sign at the expense of the owner or user.

(Code 1955, § 8-11)