HomeMy WebLinkAbout012 - 06/28/1929 - RELATING TO THE LICENSING OF BILL POSTERS AND THE LICENSING FEE FOR THE ERECTION, MAINTENANCE AND IN y
ORDIIT,dTCE LTO 'Y 1929
3EITTG AN D I'TIGETICY ORDI TAIICE TZELaTII G TO TrTE LICEITSIITC OF BILL
POSTERS AID THE LICE TSI1 G F_�,u FOR TT-JL L'DECTIOI%i TIAII TENAI CE
A TD iff=CTIOff OF BILL pOhRDS 1ITTTIIT TTIL+ uMPORA`_E LII. ITS OF
THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS COLO_�ADO
Br IT ORDAIIIED BY TrIE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY 0_� FORT COLLIiTS
Section 1 It shall be unlawful for any person firm
or cor-ooration to Dost print, paint fasten or place any adver-
tisement on any bill board within tie corporate limits of the City
of Fort Collins without first having obtained a license therefor
Section 2 The bill posters' license as contemplated
in the preceding section shall be Seventy-five (175 00 ) Dollars
per annum pajable in advance which license fee will be due and
parable on the first day of January of each year and the same will
expire on the tnTrty-first day of December of each � ear
Section 3 Any person, firm or corp.ration dasiring to
erect a-nd maintain or cause to be erected and maintairn d any bill
board or oth-r structure desio ed to oe used for advertising pur-
poses whereon any poster bill printing, paintinb or other
advertising matter wRiatsoever may be stuck, tacked posted printed
wasted fastened or placed within the corporate limits of the City of
Fort Collins or who have already erected such bill boards and are
maintain-L -ig the same witnin the corporate limits of the City of
Fort Collins shall Tor Vie purpose of continuing the maintenance
of said bill boards apply do the City Council for a license there-
for which application shall state the number of bill boards so
erected a_ad maintained, or to be erected ai+aintained, and the
location thereof and shall accompany such application with a fee
Teo and 50;100 (02 50 ) Dollars for each panel of bill ooard of the
dimensions of twelve (12) feet by twenty-five (25 ) fect or three
hundred (300) square feet or less and fol each additicnal panel
of twelve (12) feet by twenty-five (25 ) feet or three hundied (300 )
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square feet or less a similar fee shall be charged and upon the
granting of ary application for a license , the Commissioner of
Safety and Ea-Officio Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized
to issue a license therefor which shall exoire with the fiscal year
December thirty-first in each year Said license fee sbali cover
all inspection and censor charges All of said bill boards to be
erected under the regulations and limitations as orovided in the
Building Code and Zoning Ordinance of the City of Fort Collins
Section 4 Such person firm or corporation maintairing
bill boards as aforesaid, within the corporate limits of the City of
Fort Collins shall iteep and maintain the same in a safe , clean and
well oainted condition and all posters bills printing painting
or other adtiertis_ng matter shall before the same are posted be
censored by the Commissioner of Saiety and Ex-Officio rajor and no
posters , bills printing painting or otb r advertising matter whuch
oy reason of their iniecent or immoral tendencies do not meet with
the approval of the said Commissioner of Safety and Ex-Officio
PLayor shalt be placed upon any of said bill boards within the
corporate limits of the City of fort Collins
Section 5 All license fees heretofore mentioned in
this ordinance shall terminate on the 31st day of December of
each year and all license fees shall be due and oayable on the
1st day of January of each year Whenever applications are
received between the is t daj of January and the 31st day of
December tle City Clerk shall make calculations and charge for
such licenses in proportion as the remaining part of the year is
to the whole year for the purposes of tics ordinance the month
being considered as the snallest subdivision of the year
Section 6 Any person firm or corporation who shall
violate any of tvie provisions of tells ordinance shalt upon
conviction be fined in a sum not less than Five (�5 00 ) Dollars
and not more t )an One hund ed (0100 00 ) Dollars for each offense
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together with costs of suit
Section 7 O-dinance No 37, 1923 Ordinance to 1
1924 Ordinance No 39 1928, and all otner ordinances or A arts
of ordinances in conflict with t is ordinance ar- hereby repealed
Section 8 In the op-n-on of tune City Council an
emergency exists for the vreservation of the public health peace
and safety and this ordinance shall take of-tect uroon its passa,,e
and publication under and by virtue of the authority contaire d
in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter
Introduced read at length and adopted by the unanimous
vote of all members of the Gity Council at a reotla r meting held
this 28th day of Jure A D 1929
Commiss n2r o a e y an Urricio r or
ATTEST
City Clerk
STATE OF COLOR DO )
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C0Ui= OF LARI1?1TR )
I k J ROSIN011 City C1erl of the City of 7iort Collins
do hereby c-rtify and declare ttiiat the fo7 e,,oing ordi -lance con-
sisting of eight (8 ) sections was duly proposed and r ad at length
at a regular meeting of t -ie City Council held on the 28th day of
June A D 1929 and was duly adopted and ordered published _n the
Fort Collins Express-Courier, a daily news-oaaer and the official
newspaper of the City of Fort Collins by the unanimoL s vote of all
memb-rs of the City Council as an emergency ordinance in accord-
ance with theprovisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the
C_ty Charter and thereafter and on to-wit the y ZA1- day of "iy
A D 1929 said Ordinance No / 1-`� was duly purl-ids ed in the Fort
Collins Express-Courier a daily newsparer publisned in the City
of Fort Collins Colorado
IN WITITESS 1/g21?7OF I have h- reunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said City this da o J , A D 1929
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