HomeMy WebLinkAbout018 - 07/22/1922 - REGULATING THE ERECTING AND MAINTAINING OF BILL BOARDS WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY (EMER r
ORDINANCE N0. Id, 1922
BEING AN E MCTENCY ORDINANCE REGUTA TING THE T IMCTI',1G AND -MIT'TAI`MM OF
BILL BOARDS WITHIN TEE OO$POR?TE Lr?ITS OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THC CITY COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF FORT COLLINS:
Section 1. No person or persons, firm or corporation, shell
within the corporate limits of the city of Fort Collins, directly or
indirectly, in person or by another, either as principal, agent, clerk
or servant, erect cr -zaintain, or cause to be erected or maintained,any
billboard or other structure designed to be used for advertising
purposes, whereon any poster, bill, printing, painting, or other
advertising matter whatsoever may be stuck, tacked, pasted, printed,
posted, fastened or placed, witho-Jt a written permit so to do, issued
by the mayor, attested by the city clerk, under the saal of the city.
Section 2. No per eon or persons, firm or corporation, shall
directly or indirectly, in person or by another, either as -principal,
agent, clerk or servant, erect or maintain, or cause to be erected or
maintained, any billboard or other structure as mentioned in section 1
of this ordinance, in or upon any public street, bridge, alley, building,
park or other public race within the city of Fort Collins, which is
owned or controlled by the said city, nor place, nor put any movable or
transient board or boards whereon any advertising matter of any nature
or kind whatsoever is affixed, stuck, tacked, printed, or -painted in or
on any public street, avenue, alley, bride, part, thoroughfare, building
or other public _:lace„ provided, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed as prevent the proprietors, owners or agents of any lot or
lots, or of any business from advertising such lot or lots ow such
business u-pon said lot or lots within the limits of the place or
premises where such business is carried on.
Section 3. No person or persons, firm or corporation, shall
directly or indirectly, in person or by another, either as principal,
agent, clerk, or servant erect or maintain or catise to be erected or
maintained any billboard or o*her structure finentiored in sect-on 1 of
this ordinance unless the same is at least 20 feet from any stree`
front and 15 feet from any side sureet and not more than 25 feet it
leng}h, and the lower side of wni�h billboard is at least two feet
from the ground and placed up n posts not less than six inches by six
inches surfaced four sides, set to a depth of not less than three feet
in the ground, and extending not more than fourteen feet above the
surface of the ground, the said posts to be not more than eignt feet
apart and to be braced by braces not less than two arches by six inches
surfaced four sides, said braces to be securely bolted to a brace stake
not less than four inches by four inches, surfaced four aides, set in the
ground to a depth of not less than tv�o feet, and said braces to be securely
bolted to a post not lesU than nine feet above the surface of tha ground
The said billboard to be made of good subs ^ntial lumber No billboard
to be nearer than three feet to any other billboard or building
Section 4 It shall be the d"ty of tre c'+ief of police of the
city of Fort Collins to serve notice on any person or persons firm or
corporation who shall maintain billboards or other s rue ures rientioned
in section 1 of this ordinance which are not in conformity With the
requirements of this ordinance which notice shall require the parties to
remove the same, or so to change and alter the same as to conform to the
requirements of this ordinance within thirty (30) days after the service
of such notice, and any person or persons, firm or corporation, who shall
refuse, fail or neglect to so remove or alter such billboard or otner
structure as to conform to this ordinance within such thirty days
shall be punished as hereinafter , rovided
Section 5 The� of the city of Fort Collins may in kd3r
discretion revoke or decline to renew any permit issued bm=bdm as
prov ded by section 1 of tnis ordinance and no such permit shall be
issued for a Brea er period han one year No application for a permit
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to erect a billboard or other structure designed to be used for idverti.ing
purposes shall be considered by the mayor of the city of For Collirs
uitil the written consent of the adjoining lot owners themselves, or
their agents, and the owners directly opposite to such proposed billboard,
if any there be, shall be exhibited to him, together with such application
Section 6 Any person or persons, firm or corporation, who erect
or maintain billboards, or other structures, as described in section 1 of
this ordinance, shall, at their own expense, keep the ground on either side
of said billboaras clean and free from waste filth and accummilation
of any kind or nature whatsoever and shall keep the same in good,
healthy, clean and sanitary condition and any failure to comply with
this section shall be punished as hereinafter provided
Section 7 Any person or persons firm or corporation, who
erect or raintain billboards within the city of Fort Collins, shell,
oelcre receive . m7 tm rnit from the mayor, give a bond to the city of
Fort Collins in the sum of six thoasand dollars with surety or sureties
to be approved lzr the city council of said city, conditioned t'iat the
said person or persons, firm or corporation shall nold the ci+j of
Fort Collins harmless from any judgnnnt or judrgnen`s or from any cos s
or expenses occasioned by any injury or casualty hapuening o any person
or nro-oerty real or persona;, eith directly or indirectly throsgh the
erection or maintenance of any billboard or other structure a any and
slk points in the city of For Collins
Se- ion 8 A fee of .9'10 per annum for a ach billboard ernc ed or
maintained shall be raid in adv-nce of tan is.i.-ice of said permit to cover
the cost of the is uance of he permit examination as to construction and
insuection from time to time as to the safety and proper maintenance of
said structure
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Section 9 Any person or persons firm or corporation, who, either
as principal, clerk, agent, employe or servant viola es disobeys omi+s
neglects or refuses to comply rrith the proris_ons of this ordinance, sl-all,
upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than five dollars, end not more
than one hundred dollars and every omission, neglect, violation or
continuance of the thing commanded or prohibited by this ordinance for
twenty-four hours after notice shall cons+itute a separate and distinct
offense and shall be punished accordingly
Section 10 In the opinion of the City Council an emergency
exists for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety, and
tnis ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication, under
and by virtue of tris authority contained in Sect.Lons 6 and 7 of Article IV
of the City Charter
Introduced, reed at length and adopted by t%e unanimous vote of
all the members of she City Council this�22nd day of July A D 1922
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City Clerk
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STiiTE OF COLORAM )
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COJNTY OF LAPJT= )
I A J ROSEITOW, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do
hereby certify and declare that the foregoing ordinance consistiig of
ten (10) sections, eras duly proposed and read at length at a regular
mew tang of the City Council held on the 22nd day of July, A D 1922,
eor,iva�c�
and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins F
a daily newspaper and the official newspaper of the City of Fort Colli s
by the unanimous vote of all members of the Council as ar emergency
ordinances, in accordance with the provisiois of Sections 6 and 7 of
Article IV of the City Charter and thereafter on to uit the
day of July, A D 1922, said Ordinance No 0 was duly published
in the Fort Colli isicpra�sa, a daily newspaper published in the City
of Fort Collins Colorado
IlT WITITESS VMPIOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said City this a2cs'ay of July, A D 11122
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City Clerk