HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances_1069ORDINANCE NO. 1069
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 887, ORDINANCE
NO. 982, ORDINANCE NO. 947 AND OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HERETO.
THE TITLE OF THIS ORDINANCE IS AS FOLLOWS:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS PROVIDING FOR THE REGULATION,
INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE OF BILLBOARDS AND SIGNS, PROVIDING FOR
PERMITS AND INSPECTION AND FIXING FEES TEREOF, FOR PROVIDING PENALTIES
FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE.
The City Council of the City of Redlands does ordain as follows:
SECTION 100 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms used herein
are defined as follows:
(a) Al1ev Is a public thoroughfare not designed for general
travel and primarily used as a means of access to the rear or side of
residences and business establishments.
(b) Approval or Approved - Refers to the approval of method
or material by the Building Official.
(c) Billboard - Refers to a structure of any kind or character,
erected or maintained for outdocer advertising purposes, upon which any
poster, bill, printing, painting or other advertisement of any kind
whatsoever may be placed, including statuary, for advertising purposes.
(d) Building Official Is the Head of the Inspection Depart-
ment or his regularly authorized deputy.
(e) Certified Architect Is one who has passed the examination
of the State Board of Architectural Examiners and has been issued a
certificate by that Board to practice architecture.
(f) Curb Line - Is the top face of a curb or, when the curb is
not in place, -the established curb line.
(g) Dwelling m Is a building or any portion thereof which
contains one or more apartments or guest rooms uses., intended or
designed to be used, rented, leased, let or hired out to be occupied
or which is occupied for living purposes.
(h) Electric Si„fin, d Is a billboard or sign served or energized
with electrical current for purpose of illumination or for any other
purpose.
(i) Electric Sign Contractor , Is a person who engages in or
carries on the business of erecting, installing, moving, maintaining or
altering electric signs and such business is referred to herein as the
electric sign contracting business.
(j) Face of Building = Means the general outermost surface
of any main exterior wall of a building but the term shall not include
a cornice, bay window, balcony, porch or other feature which extends
beyond the general outermost surface of such exterior wall or beyond
a property line.
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(k) Grade - Is the elevation of the nearest public sidewalk
adjoining the property upon which a billboard, sign or building is erected
or the natural surface of the ground supporting a billboard, sign or build-
ing, whichever is the lower surface.
(1) Ground Sign Shall mean a billboard, or sign which is
supported on one or more poles, uprights, standards or brac.es in or upon
the ground.
(m) Inspection Department - Shall mean the Building Division .
and Electric Division of the Inspection Department.
"(n) Licensed -Engineer d Is one who has passed the examinations
given by the State Board of Registration of Civil Engineers and who holds
a certificate from such Board authorizing him to practice civil engineer-
ing in the State. A structural Engineer is one who holds a Civil
Engineer°s Certificate and has also been authorized by the Board to use
this title.
(o) Marquee m A marquee is a permanent roofed structure
attached to and supported by the building and extending beyond the outer
walls of a building either on private property, beyond a setback line or
over public property.
(p) Parapet Wall - Is that part of any wall entirely above
the roof or eave line.
(q) - Person @ Means and includes an individual; a receiver, a
trustee; a co -partnership; joint adventurers; a firm; an unincorporated
association; a syndicate, a club; a society; a trust; a private corp-
oration; a public corporation; a municipal, county, State or Federal
agency, a board or commission; a water district; a utility district;
a political subdivision; and a drainage, irrigation, levee, reclamation,
flood control or water conservation district, whether acting for himself
or itself, or in any representative capacity.
(r) Place - As used in this Section, shall mean erected,
constructed, posted, painted, printed, tacked, glued, stuck, carved or
otherwise fastened, fixed or made visible in any manner whatsoever.
(s) Projecting Sign ,t, Shall mean a sign other than a wall
sign projecting from and supported by a wall or wall and roof of a
building or structure.
(t) Roof Sign - Is a billboard or sign erected upon or
above the roof of any building.
(u) Setback Line - Is that line established by ordinance
beyond which no building, wall, fence, billboard, sign or other
structure, except as permitted by ordinances of the City of Redlands,
may be erected or constructed.
(v) Sign - Shall include all outdoor advertising on any card,
cloth, paper, plastic, metal, glass,, wooden or stone materials and any
and all devices, structural or otherwise,.lighted or unlighted, painted
or not painted, attached to, made.a part of or placed in the window of,
in the front, rear, sides or top of any structure and visible from any
public or private street, way, thoroughfare, alley, or walk, which
device announces. or directs attention to the name or nature of a business,
occupant of a structure, building. or land or the nature or type of goods,
services or products produced, sold, stored, furnished or available at
that location or at any.other location, including signs specifically for
the sale of real property.
(w) Street = Is a public thoroughfare, other than an "Alley"
as defined herein, twenty-one feet or more in width.
(x) Structure - Is that which is built or constructed, an
edifice or building of any kind or any piece of work artificially built
up or composed of parts joinedtogether in some definite manner.
(y) Temporary Sign m Means any sign, not an electrical sign,
with an advertising surface of not more than thirty-six square feet,
and'which is used to advertise goods, wares or merchandise, or any other
business, and such sign shall be located on the premises where such
goods, wares or merchandise are sold or such business conducted. No
temporary sign may be maintained for a period to exceed ninety (90) days.
(z) Wall Sign a Is any billboard or sign attached to or
painted upon any exterior wall of a building.
SECTION 101 = GENERAL REGULATIONS
(a) ,Signs All signs within the City of Redlands shall be
regulated by this ordinance, and the placing or erection of such signs
in certain zones shall conform to the.provisions of Zoning Ordinance
No. 1000, Section 42.00, Signs, which pertain to permitted land uses.
(b) Subdivision Signs - Signs erected for the purpose of sale
of land or dwellings on subdivisions may not exceed a total Of one hundred
(100) square feet, provided however that no sign shall have a horizontal
length of over eight (a) feet and a vertical height of over five (5)
feet, and such signs shall not have more than three (3) feet of clear-
'ance between the lower part of the sign and the ground and no sign shall
be. attached to.or suspended from any other sign, and said signs shall be
located only.on land to which the sign refers. All signs referring to
land or.dwelling sale on subdivisions shall be removed ninety (90) days
after the last dwelling has received a final inspection by the Inspection
Department of the City of Redlands or after all dwelling construction has
been discontinued for a period of ninety (90) days. No dwelling, office
or sign shall be erected solely for the purpose of .sale of land or dwell-
ing in a subdivision more than thirty (30) days before actual construction
is commenced°on dwelling or dwellings in the subdivisions Any signs
erected on the lot, or attached to said dwelling or office may have e.
total of fifty (50) square feet. The use of decorative flags, emblems,
bivnner i, lbUnting or other similar devices shall not be erected, construct-
ed or maintained in any subdivision. It shall 'be unlawful to use such
words as "stop", "look", "danger" or any other word, phrase, symbol or
character on any sign or signs in such a manner as to interfere with,
mislead or confuse traffic. No sign shall be located within twenty-five
-(25) feet of a corner property intersection of two streets, and it is
further provided that the sign shall not be located closer than ten (10)
feet from the front line of the property. Any installation of electric
lights used to illuminate any sign, dwelling or office in any subdivision
shall concentrate the illumination upon the area of the sign, dwelling .
or office and prevent glare upon the street or adjacent property. Each
electrical installation shall be subject to approval by the Electrical
Inspector before a permit is issued by tie. Inspection Department.
(c) For Rent of For Sale Signs = Not to exceed three (3)
square feet in area and not to exceed two (2) signs per lot, shall be
posted by owners only. Said sign shall not contain thereon the name of
any person, firm or corporation other than that of the owner.
(d) Setback ne - No person shall erect or construct, any
billboard or sign beyondLia setback line, except in the manner and to
the extent as in this Ordinance provided.
(e) Allevs - No sign shall project into any alley whatsoever
below a height of fourteen (14) feet above grade or ground underneath,
or more than twelve (12) inches when over fourteen (14) feet.
(f) Front face of Building o Lot Between Buildings = No sign
or billboard, ground sign or any portion thereof shall be erected or
constructed nearer to the line of any public sidewalk, street or alley
or other public place than the front face of any building used as a
dwelling which is located in the same block and which faces on any such
block and which faces on any such public sidewalk, street, alley or
other public place; provided, however, that if said dwelling is not
within fifty (50) feet of said billboard, ground sign or'any portion
thereof or if the property intervening between said dwelling and such
billboard or ground sign is occupied by a building or structure devc+ted,
to business purposes, then the billboard or ground sign may be built
nearer to the line of the public street, alley or other public place
than the said front face of the nearest dwelling and provided, further,
that when a billboard or ground sign is erected upon a lot between a
dwelling and a building devoted to business purposes, said billboard
or ground sign may be built nearer to the street than the front face
of the nearest dwelling but shall not be built closer to the line of
any public sidewalk, street, alley'or other public place than a line
drawn between the front adjacent corner of said dwelling and a build-
ing devoted to business purposes. No billboard or sign within one
hundred (100) feet of a dwelling shall be energized with electric
lights, unless the illumination is concentrated upon the area of the
billboard or sign and does not cast glare upon said dwelling.
(g) height and area Regulations a No person as principal,
agent or otherwise shah, erect or construct or cause to be erected or
constructed any billboard or sign of a greater height than ten (10)
feet above grade, as defined herein, if the supports of said billboard
or -sign be composed of combustible materials; nor a billboard of a
greater height than thirty (30) feet above grade if the supports are
composed of incombustible materials, except combination and ground
signs, in accordance with other provisions of this Ordinance. No
sign or billboard erected upon the surface of the ground, or wall,
as set forth in Section 118, shall exceed 300 uquare feet in total
area; provided, however, letters, figures or representations in cutout
may be. erected or placed on or above a sign or billboard but may not
exceed 10% of the total area of said structure. The total height
including cutouts., letters or figures shall not exceed thirty (30)
feet above grade. 411 signs on walls of buildings shall not exceed
two (2) square feet per lineal foot of any one building face or side
of any building and in no case shall exceed three hundred (300) square
feet on any one building face or side
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(h) Sidewalks or streets - No person shall erect or construct
any billboard upon or over any public sidewalk, street or other public
place.
(i) Marquee m Heiht of Si h - Standing letters only shall
be permitted on marquees and shall not exceed 24 inches in height.
No sign can be hung below a marquee when the sign is less than 10
feet above the sidewalk, or established grade, and such sign shall
not exceed 12 inches in height or 36 inches in length. Signs may be
placed on the outer face of a marquee if they are made a part thereof
and do not exceed the limitations of marquees.
(j) Projection Beyond Property Line or Face of Building
No person shall erect or maintain any sign which exceeds the projection
beyond the property line, the face of a building or above a roof, or
which is lower than the heights above the surface of the sidewalk or
established grade, set forth and indicated in Diagram 1 hereinafter
set forth.
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(k) Marquee - Exception - The provisions of subsection (j) of
this section shall not apply to a sign constructed on or fastened to a
marquee, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (i) of this
section.
(1)' Setback Line Limitation d No person shall erect or maintain_
any sign beyond a setback line above a roof or eave line which shall exceed
or be contrary to the limitations hereinabove prescribed in Diagram 1 set
forth in subsection (j) covering projection beyond a property line above a
roof or eave line. Projections beyond a setback line shall be permitted
only in the same manner and to the same extent as provided in said Diagram
1 forprojection beyond a property line. i?or the purposes of this subsection
(1), the designation "property line" wherein it appears in said. Diagram 1,
shall be construed to mean "setback line" or face of building.
(m) Swinging or Attached Signs o It shall be unlawful to erect,
install or maintain any sign attached to or suspended from another sign
or to erect,'install or maintain any swinging sign.
SECTION 102 - DESIGN AND MAI:iTENiNCE OF BILLBOARDS .i ND SIGNS
(a) No person shall erect.or maintain any billboard or sign
unless the advertising surface is constructed of metal, asbestos cement
board, tempered masonite or similar approved material. Letters, figures
or representations in cutouts instalied'on billboards and signs may be
made or constructed of exterior plywood or similar approved material.
(b) No person shall erect or maintain any billboard or sign
unless the same is designed and built to withstand a wind pressure of
twenty pounds per square foot of exposed surface below a height of.
thirty feet above grade and a wind. pressure. of thirty pounds per square
foot above a height of thirty feet on buildings up to and including the
maximum height limit of such'signs, fifty. feet above grade.
(c). Plans and designs for all billboards and signs having an
area exceeding thirty-five square feet shall, in addition to showing
detail of billboards and signs and methods of attachment or support as
required in this Ordinance, also show a method of carrying loads through
the supporting building or structure to the foundation and ground below
and shall establish the ability of members to transmit each loads.
Allowable stresses in both new and existing members shall be such as are
approved by the Inspection Department.
(d) No person owning or controlling a'billboard or sigh shall
fail to keep such structure in a state of good repair at all times with
all braces, bolts, clips and supporting frame free from deterioration,
termite infestation, rot, rust, loosening and such condition that at all
times it will withstand the wind pressure specified in this.0rdinance.
(e) No person shall.erect or maintain *any billboard or sign
unless all bolts holding or supporting such billboard or signs are carried
through and bolted on the inside wall, and no wall sign shall extend or
project above the top of the.parapet or eave. line (Note Section 115).
(f) No person shall erect or maintain any billboard or sign
in a location where any portion of .such billboard or sign or its
supporting framework interferes with the free use of any stairway, fire
escape or other means of exit or with standpipes.
(g) No person shall erect or maintain any billboard or sign
unless approved lateral bracing 13 provided. Braces, angles, elips,
bolts, lag screws or similar members in connection with billboards or
signe shall be hot dipped galvanized. Cables or chains or other flexible
or loosely connected members shall not be considered as providing lateral
bracing unless the cable is not less than three -sixteenths inch and
consists of seven strands of sixteen gauge hot dipped galvanized wire,
and chains shall be made up of not less than three -sixteenths inch hot
dipped galvanized links and provisions shall be made for a turn -buckle,
or other equally effective method, for tightening and keeping taut such
members.
(h) No person shall erect or maintain any electrical billboard
or sign in which glass or other transparent material forme a part or is
used unless such material shall conform to the Board of Fire Underwriters
specifications.
(1) No sign painted upon the surface of any wall shall exceed
a total area of 300 square feet. No such painted sign shall exceed two
(2) square feet per lineal fcot of the building face or side on which the
sign is painted. In determining the maximum area of 300 feet herein
provided, the space ssparating all letters, pictures, characters or other
contents shall be included in the computation of the entire area.
SECTION 103 - NAMES OF OWNERS ON ALL BILLBOARDS
No billboard shall be erected unless the name of the person
erecting, constructing, owning: or controlling the said billboard ie
plainly and permanently marked, painted or outlined above such billboard
or in a conspicuous place thereon.
SECTION 104 - LITTEFING OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
No person shall scatter, daub or leave any paint, pots, paste,
glue or other .saterials or sulstance used in painting or affixing adver-
tising matter upon any public street or sidewalk or scatter or throw or
permit to be ecattered or thrcwn any bills, waste matter, paper, cloth
or materials of whatsoever kird removed from billboards or signs on any
public thoroughfare or on private property.
SECTION 105 - RE:s0VsL OF HEEDS AND RUBBISH
No person maintainirg any billboards or signs shall fail to
keee the ground space within ten feet in all directions from the base of
sucn billboards or signs free and clear of all weeda, rubbish and other
inflammable waste material.
SECTION 106 - IM1XRnL OR UNLAWFUL ADVERTISING PROHIBITED
No person shall exhibit, post or display upon any billboard or
sign any etatement, symbol or sign of an obscene, or immoral natureor
any picture' illustration or delineation of any human figure in such detail
ee to offend public morals or •decency; or of any lewd lascivious act or
any other matter o: tieing of an obscene, indecent or immoral nature os°
offensive to the moral sense; or any murder, suicide,robber3holdup,
shooting, stabbing, clubbing or beating, of any human being Wherein any
Such act is shown in gruesomodetail or in a revolting manner or in any
manner objectionable to the moral sense.
SECTION ipi - SIGNS INTERFERING WITH TRAFFIC
No person shall ereot or construct or cause or permit to be
erected or constructed any billboard or sign which simulates or imitates
le eize, color, lettering or design any traffic sign in a manner as to
interfere with, mislead or confuse traffio. No swinging, moving signs
or sembols shall be permitted along with blinking or intermittent red,
green or amber lights likely to be mistaken for a warning or danger
signal.
SECTION 108 - SIGNS PROHIBITED ON PUBLIC PROPERTY
No person, except a public officer or employee in performance
of a public duty, 'shall place paste, nail, paint, tack, wire or otherwise
fasten any card, banner, pennant, handbill, sign, portable sign, poster
or advertisement or notice of any kind, or cause the same to be done, an
any pavement, sidewalk, parking place, siep, curbstone, lamppost, pole,
signpost, hydrant, bridge, wall or tree located upon a street or upon
public property except as may be required by ordinance or law.
SECTION 109 - STREET BANNERS - PERMIT RJ3Q,UIRED
No person shall hang or suspend any street banner, flag, pennant
or street decoration over and above any street or other public thorough-
fare or cause the same to be done unless permission eo to do has first
been- obtained from the City ,ty Council and provided that such street
banner, flag, pennant or street decoration is safely suspended not lest
tiaan sixteen (16) feet above such public thoroughfare and provided further
that the advertising matter upon such signs, except political banners
shall not contain'the name or designation of any individual, firm -or
corporation as an advertisement for private gain, and provided further
that such sign shall be dated in legible letters and shall not remain in
place for a period longer than established by the City Council, These
provisions shall not apply to any sign or advertising matter lettered
upon the surface of any awning, provided the awning is securely attached
to a building and is not less than seven feet above the sidewalk level
immediately below. .
SECTION 11O BILLBOARDS •
(a) No person shall erect or maintain any billboard, the
advertising surface or decorative moulding of which is less than three
feet distant from the immediate adjoining property line, when the
property contiguous thereto is occupied by a building with openings
immediately opposite which are within three feet of said adjoining
property line; provided, however, that one end of the billboard may be
nearer than three feet distant from the adjacent' property line if the
billboard is Placed at an angle away from the building so that.no
openings within six feet distant from the billboard'are covered; provided,
further, that the advertising surface of a billboard may be placed against
a blank wall equal to the surface area of the billboard on the property
line and in no case in excese of 300 square feet of total area.
(b) There shall not be more than one billboard for each one
hundred (100) feet of street or highway frontage, provided, however,
there may be one billboard on any parcel of property listed as a separate
lot, but .in no case closer than fifteen feot to another billboard, exeept
a sign for tenant°s own advertising and real estate sins and signs placed
batik to back. V shaped and double panel billboards are hereby prohibited.
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No billboard or sign shall be .ereoGed, installed or maintained
within the City of Redlands within such distane of the intersection of
a public highway or alley, with any other public highway or alley or
railroad'crossing in said City of Rdlands, that will obstruct the clear
and unimpaired view of Said highway at the intersections, by persons
using the same.
SECTIOLl11 - TEMPORARY SIGNS
(a) No person shall erect or maintain any temporary sign that
is not safely secured in place, or to erect or maintain any temporary
sign that projects over public property more than six inches Temporary
.signs may not be maintained or used over ninety (90) days.
(b) No person sha:0,1 erect or maintain any temporary sign
upon or over any roof.
SECTION U.2- PORTABLE SIGNS
iu) The construction provisions of this Ordinance shall not
apply to movable or portable poster boards, portable A -boards, folding
signs and similar movablesigns with no advertising surface thereof
larger than twenty-four square feet, When such signs do not exceed six
feet and six inches in height, and such signs shall be maintained upon
private property, advertising such products or service furnisha. or
available at that lobation. All portable and movable signs shall be
anchored or weighed to hold them substantially erect.
(b) Such signs shall be set back.thirty feet from the cornsl--
of property Xines.to provide for clear vision at intersections.
(c) Regardless of any provision herein to the contrary, no
sign permit shall be required for any type of portable sign that meets
the requirements sot forth in subsection (a) and (b) hereof,
SECTION_ kaz. GROUND SIGU =, SIGNS ERyaCTED ONS3TANDARDS
No person shall erect or maintain a ground sign which is
aupportod by one or .mora posts or standards unless such ground sign,:
and any standard which supports it, is designed and maintained in
accordance with the provisions of Section 101 and in accordance with
the following specifications2
(a) Any standard which supports a ground sign or a billboard
as provided herein Shall be structural steel or heavy wrought iron pipe.
(b) The projections and heights scheduled for projecting signa
in Diagram Y. shall apply to any ground sign erected upon a standard or
standards whi&h projects over public property. On private property the
bottom of Stadia signe shall be not loss than seven (7) feet above grade.
(c) -Ground signs constructed on one or Tore standards may not
exceed one hundred and fifty (a50) squre feet in total area nLa may fot
exceed an over-all height limit of thirty (30) feet above grade. Al].
ground signs shall be designed by a Licensed Engineer. Such signs when
advertising any trade, pro.fession, business or merchandise may only be.
Installed on th lot, property br building where such tvade, profession
or business is being conducted, billboards excepted.
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SECTION 114 - ROOF SIGES
All roof signs are hereby prohibited within the City of Redlands
except as provided in other sections of this Ordinance.
SECTION L15 - PARAPET WALL OR FIRE ESCAPE
(a) No person shall erect or maintain on any building or
structure a billboard or sign more than 15 feet above the level of the
roof or eave line. The level of the roof or eave line shall mean the
lowest /evel of the major portion of the length of same on the side where
the eign or billboard is to be placed.
(b) No person shall erect or maintain any billboard or sign on
any roof in a location where any portion of the billboard or sign or its
supporting framework will interfere with the free use of any stairway,
fire secape or other means of exit, or with vent shaft n or standpipes, or
in a manner which will bstruct any window, ventilator or doorway which
is required by law or ordinance.
(c) No parapet wall or other structure shall be designed to
receive signs on any building more than fifteen feet above the level of
the roof or cave line.
SECTION 116 - HEIGHT ABOVE ROOF
(a) No person shall erect or maintain any projecting sign upon
a roof to exceed a height of fifteen (15) feet above the highest point of
the roof directly under such sign. No projecting sign may be erected or
installed upon any roof to exceed a height greater than fifty feet above
grade as defined in Diagram 1.
(b) A three foot clearance above the roof must be maintained
under any projecting sign, provided that standing letters only shall he
permitted on sloping roofs and shall not exceed twenty-four (24) inches
in height upon a roof.
SECTION 117 - PROJECTING SIGNS - ERECTION.REqUIREMENTS
(a) Other than a wall sign, all signs which project from and
are supported by the walls of a building or structure or in combination
with the walls of a building or structure and roof are deemed to be
projecting eigns.
(b) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 101 (j), no
person shall erect or maintain a projecting sign which projects further
than a point two feet inside the face of the curb.
(c) No projecting sign shall have an area in excess of one
hundred and fifty (150) square feet.
(d) Al]. projecting signs in Fire Zone #1 and #2 shall be
constructed entirely of noncumbustibie material including the hangers
and supports for attaching the sign to the wall or walls and roof but
may have ornamental moldings of wood or other approved material.
(e) Where projecting signs are erected above a marquee, a
minimum of three feet of clearance between the bottom of the projecting
sign and marquee must be maintained and shall not be affixed thereto.
(f) A projecting sign which returns over the parapet wall may
return over the roof, such return not to exceed ten feet from the front
face of the sign. The height of all projecting signs shall not exceed
fifteen (15) feet above the roof or roof eave line and in no case shall
exceed a height of 50 feet above grade. The level of a roof or eve lire
shall mean the lowest level of the major portion of the length of same cm
the side of the building where the sign is to be placed.
(g) Wooden sills or steel foot angles placed on top of roof
coverings shall be bolted for supporting the framework of such signs and
such members shall, after roof work is completed, be set in roofing mastic.
(h) Where supporting sills, blocks or braces of such signs
occur in connection with tile or slate roofs, all such sills and braces
shall be flashed or counter flashed with sheet lead in accordance with
ordinance governing such work.
(i) Sills or foot angles shall be so designed or so located
as riot to interfere with the drainage of the roof.
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kj) On a Type I Building all supporting members shall be
constructed of steel.
SECTION 11S - PROJECTION, WALL AND GROUND SIGNS - PERMIT REQUIRED
In addition to requirements of Section 102 and other sections of
this Ordinance relative to design and maintenance of signs, no person shall
erect, move or alter a sign without submitting an application for a sign
Permit for such a sign together with data to prove conclusively to the
satisfaction of the Building Official that any supporting wall, roof, or
portion thereof upon which such sign is erected is in good condition and
adeauately strong to securely and safely supnort such sign and shall, in
addition, provide safe and proper connections to the sign framework.
SECTION 119 - BILLBOARDS PERMITS_REQUIRED
(a) No person shall erect, install, construct, or maintain any
billboard or add to an existing billboard or move from one location and
erect in another location or alter, any billboard or any part thereof,
or cause the sane to be done without first obtaining a permit so to do
from the Building Official, and such permit may be known and referred
to as a sign permit.
(b) Repainting of a billboard, or the hanging of advertising
copy thereof, shall not be considered a' alteration which requines a sign
permit unless a structural change is made or exposed area is increased.
The placing, attaching, or superimposing of letters, figures or represen-
tations in cutouts of irregular form during the change of advertising
copy on a billboard shall not be considered an alteration or structural
change for which a permit is required, provided that such billboard has
been first approved and designated by the Building Official as a billboard
capable of receiving such cutouts. Approval of such billboards shall be
contingent upon proof that such billboard is so designed and constructed
so as to adequately resist loads contributed by the billboard with cut-
outs and irregular shapes attached in the amount permitted in Section 101.
Approval shall include supporting building or structure in the manner
prescribed in Section 102.
SECTION 120 - PLANS FILED
(a) Accompanying each application for a billboard or sign
permit there shall be filed plans drawn to scale of such clarity to
indicate location, dimensions and the engineering design of such struc-
tures. Plans for all billboards or signs having an area of fifteen square
feet or more, or signs of a lessor size but of an unusual nature shall be
blue -printed, be submitted in duplicate and shall have been designed by a
licensed engineer or architect duly authorized to practice in the State.
Calculations and stress diagrams shall be furnished showing that the
billboard or sign and/or buildings supporting such billboard or sign, if
any complies with the requirements of this Ordinance.
(b) After checking, and if the plans and specifications are
found to be in conformity with the requirements of this Ordinance, the
Building Official shall, upon receipt of the required fee, issue a
permit therefor, however if such sign or billboard is to be illuminated
in any manner whatsoever, plans and specifications for such sign shall
also be approved by the Inspection Department and an electrical permit
secured.
(c) When the permit is issued, plans shall be stamped "Approved"
and a set of approved plans must be kept on the work at all times and no
changes, alterations or modifications shall be made therein and the bill-
board or sign shall be built in conformity therewith unless authorization
to the contrary is obtained from the Inspection Department.
AgfIa121 ELECTRICAL SIGNS - .PERMIT REQUIRED
(a) No person shall engage in or carry on the business of
electric sign contracting without complying with all of the application
provisions of ordinances governing electrical construction for which an
electric permit is required. The electric sign contracting business
shall be deemed to be the electrical contracting business. Every such
electric sign contractor shall comply with all the applicable require-
ments of such ordinances and with this Ordinance.
(b) In addition to the requirements under Section 102 and
other sections of this ordinance relative to design and maintenance of
all billboards or signs, no person shall erect, install, construct,
maintain or move an electric billboard or sign without first obtaining
from the Inspection Department the required electrical permit or permits
and paying the fees thereof prior to the erection of such electrical
billboard or sign. In addition to obtaining the said billboard or sign
permit, any person desiring a billboard or sign permit for any electric
billboard or sign shall first submit an application for a billboard or
sign permit together with data, design and information to show definitely
to the satisfaction of the Inspection Department that all provisions of
any electrical regulation of the code have been complied with and obtain.
ing approval of the installation from the Inspection Department. Every
such application for billboard or sign permit shall describe the land
and/or building upon which the proposed electric billboard or sign is to
be erected by lot, block, street number or similar general description
which will readily identify and locate the proposed electric billboard
or sign.
SECTION 122 - BILLBOARD AND SIGN - PERMITS AND FEES
(a) Every applicant for a billboard or sign permit at the
time of making application therefor, shall pay to the Treasurer's Office
a fee for such billboard or sign permit in the amount of that set forth
for a billboard or sign permit in the fee schedule below:
TOTAL VALUATION FEE
800.00 to and including 8100.00 $2.00
More than 8100.00, to and including
3400.00 T).00
More than 8400.00, to and including
8700.00 5.00
More than 3700.00, to and including
81,000.00 6.00
Each additional 81,000.00 or fraction,
to and including 815,000.00 2.50
This permit fee shall he in addition to the fees required for
electrical permits as set forth in the Electrical Code.
(b) If work authorized to he done under a billboard or sign
permit is not begun within sixty days from the date of issuance, such
permit becomes null and void and the fee paid therefor by the applicant
is forfeited.
(c) The issnance or granting of a billboard or sign permit
shall not be deemed or construed to be a permit for or an approval of
any violation of any of the provisions of this Ordinance and no billboard
or sign permit presuming to give authority to violate or cancel Tht
provisions of this Ordinance shall be valid except insofar as the work
or use which is authorized by the issuance of a billboard or sign permit
is lawful.
(d) The issuance of a billboard or sign permit shall not
prevent the Building Official from thereafter requiring the correction
of errors and the said official is hereby authorized to stop any billboard
or sign installation:which is being carried on in violation of this
Ordinance or of any other ordinances in the City,
SECTIONl23 INSPECTION
(a) The Building Official may inspect at any tine during the
erection, construction, enlarging, alteration or moving of any billboard
or sign referred to in this ordinance.
(b) No person erecting, constructing, enlarging, altering or
moving any billboard or sign shall fail to call for a final inspection
by the Building Official within forty-eight hours after work is completed.
If, after inspection, such billboard or sign or any portion thereof is
found to violate provisions of this Ordinance, correction shall be made
promptly and the billboard or sign shall be made to conform in all
respects and another call for final inspection shall be again made.
Calls for inspection by the Electrical inspector shall also be made as
required.
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(c) No billboard or sign shall be considered complete until
the final inspection herein referred to and inspections required by the
Inspection Department have been made.
SECTION 124 - BUILDING OFFICIAL - DUTIES
(a) The Building Official is hereby authorized and directed
to enforce all of the provisions of this Ordinance and, for such purpose,
he shall have the power of a police officer. Said official, upon presen-
tation of the proper aledentials, may enter any building or upon any
premises fer the purpose of inspection of billboard or sign construction
work or installations, or to prevent any violation of this Ordinance and
to see tbat all work is done in e. workmanlike manner. Whenever the said
official finds teat any billboard or sign work is being done contrary to,
or has ),een completed in violation of, any provision of this Ordinance or
any oti'er portion of this Ordinance regulating billboard or sign construc-
tion werk, or when it comes to the attention of the said official that
any work regulated by this Ordinance is dangerous, unsafe, or a menace
to life, health or property, or built illegally, the said Building
Official shall have the power, and he is hereby authorized to order any
suc'n work to be immediately stopped, removed, or to order any dangerous
or nsafe construction or construction which is a menace to life, health
or property, to be made safe. Any such order to stop work, or to make
construction safe, shall be in writing.
(b) No person shall continue or proceed with any billboard or
fign work in violation of this Ordinance, or of any other ordinance
eegulating billboard or sign construction after receipt of any notice
from the Inspection Department to stop work, unless such work is in
compliance with the provisions of this Ordinance or such other ordin-
ances. No pereon shall maintain any unsafe, dangerous or illegal bill-
board or sign until instructions, given by the Inspection Department,
to make such billboard or sign safe or legal, have been complied with.
(c) In case the person or persons who violate any of the
provisions of this Ordinance cannot be located or refuse to comply with
the orders of the Building Official, the owner of the property or build-
ing upon which the billboard or sign in violation is located shall be
responsible for the correction of the violation.
SECTION 1 5 - PROTECTION_ OF PUBLIC DURING ERECTION OF SIGNS
No person shall erect or install any sign which projects over
or above any public property in any business district, nor do any pre-
paratory work preliminary to the erection or installation of such sign,
unless a suitable barricade of heavy rope attached to movable trestles
or standards or a board fence not less than four feet in height is
erected and maintained to keep pedestrian or other traffic from under-
neath such sign for a distance not less than twenty feet on all sides
of the sign during the period in which the work is being nerformed
except that a suitable space on the sidewalk next to curb may be left
for a passage; provided, further, that between sunset and sunrise, in
addition to the barricade herein required, there ellen be installed and
kept burning not less than two lighted red lanterns if such work is to
be performed at night.
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SECTION 126 - ENFORCEMENT
(a) The Building Official and the Police Department shall
enforce the provisions of this Ordinance.
(b) Any sign or billboard set up, erected or constructed
contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance shall be and the same is
hereby declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance and the City
Attorney of the City of Redlands, upon order of the Council, shall
immediately commence action or proceedings to abate and remove the sign
or billboard and enjoin any person, firm or corporation from setting up,
erecting, constructing or maintaining any such sign or billboard contrary
to the provisions of this Ordinance.
exclusive.
The remedies provided herein shall be cumulative and not
SECTION .123 PENALTY
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions
of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding Three Hundred Dollars
($300.00) or by. imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not more
than thirty (30; days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
SECTION 128 - BOARD OF APPEAL
(a) Creation of Board. There shall be and is hereby created
and established, a Board of Appeal consisting of five members appointed
by the Mayor subject to the approval of the Council. The Building
Official shall be an ex-officio member and shall act as Secretary of the
Board. No member ehall sit in a case in which he is cUrectly or indirectly.
interested. All vacancies occurring on the Board of Appeal for whatever
cause, shall be filed by the Mayor, subject to the approval of the Coun..
cii, either permanerrtly or temporarily as the case may demand. Any member
of the Board of Appeal may be removed by the Mayor, subject to the approval
of the Council. The said Board of Appeal shall immediately upon its ap-
pointment, organize and elect a chairman for the term of one (1) year, and,
such other officers as the Board may deem advisable, except for the Office
of Secretary, whioh shall be held by the Building Official as hercinabove
set forth. The City Planning Director and the Fire Chief of said City
ehall at all times serve in an advisory capacity to the said Board of
Appeal when requested so to do.
(b) Suitability of Alternate Materials, Type of installation
and reasonable interpretations of this Ordinance. Any request of alter-
nate materials, typeof installation or a reasonable interpretation of
this Ordinance may be served upon the Building Official and such request
shall at once be transferred to the Board of Appeal. After notice to such
parties as the Board may direct, a hearing shall be had and. the Board may
by a majority vote, affirm, annul or modify such request and render all
decisions and findinge in writing to the Building Official with a dupli
cate oopy to the reppellant and may recommend to the City Council such
action as is consistent therewith.
(c) Board of Appeal. Building Official; Right of Appeal.
Any applicant for a billboard or sign permit ehose application shall
hare been rejected by the Building Official or any owner or agent who
shall have been ordered by the Building Official to incur an expense in
the alteration, repair or construction of any billboard or sign, may
within fifteen days thereafter appeal fro such action by serving upon
the Building Official, notice in writing of such appeal and such notice
or certified copy thereof shall at once be transmitted to the Board of
Appeal. After the notice to such parties as the Board may direct, a
hearing shall be had and the Board may by a majority vote, affirm, annul
or modify such rejection, alteration, repair or construction and render
all decisions and finding in writing to the Building Official with a
duplicate copy to the appellant and may recommend to the City Council
such action as is consistent therewith.
BBCTION L29 =_REPEAL OF EXISTING ORDINANCES
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with the
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed,
SECTIONVAIIDITy_gF ORDINANCE
Each provision of this ordinance shall be separate and sever-
able and in the event any specific provision is declared void or invalid,
no other section otherwise legal and valid shall be affected thereby.
SECTION 131 - WHEN EFFECTIVE
This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after its passage as provided by law.
or, ? -.CERTIFICATION
The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published once in the Redlands Daily. Facts,
a daily newepaper hereby designated for that purpose.
Mayor of the City of Redlands
ATTEST:
City Clerk
I do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Re landP at a regular
meeting thereof, held on the 3„ ft day of 45e0,, 1957, by
the following vote:
AYES:
NOES
ABSENT:
APPROVED FOR FORM:
City Attorney
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