Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — ORDINANCE NO. 161. [ARTICLE]

ORDINANCE NO. 161.

An ordinance ‘by the Common Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, prohibiting the use of overhead signs, signboards, emblems or fixtures for business or professional advertisement on Washington street and providing ifor a penalty for the violation of the same. * Section 1. 'Be it ordained by the Oommbn Council of the City of Rensselaer, Indiana, that from and after the passage of this ordinance it shall be unlawful for the owner or occupant of any building, or other structure located on Washington street in the original plat of said city, to have suspended from or attached to any such building, or other structure or any part theieof, over and across any portion of said street any overhead sign, signboard, emblem or fixture used as a business or professional advertisement. The words “overhead sign, signboard, emblem or fixtures” as used in this ordinance ghall be construed to mean all parts thereof, including all hangers, 'posts, rods, brackets and .braces used or intended to be used as a support thereto. Immediately upon the passage and publication of this ordinance, it shall be the duty of the owner or occupant of any. such building or other structure or the owner of any overhead signs, signboards, emblems or fixtures as herein above described, to remove or eause the same to be removed from any such building or other structure, iso that no portion thereof shall extend beyond said .building or other structure over and across any portion of said street. Any person, firm or Corporation being the owner or occupant of any such .building or other structure, or whoever being the owner of any overhead sign, signboard, emblem or other fixture, as described herein, who shall violate any of the provisions of . this section shall be guilty of a a Misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars, and each day that any siuch overhead sign, signboard, emblem or fixture shall be permitted to remain attached to any building or other structure or any part theieof in violation of the provisions of this section, shall constitute a separate violation hereof. Provided, however, that the provisions of this ordinance shall not apply to any sign printed or painted on any awning constructed according to the provisions of Ordinance No. 20, of said city, and entitled, “An ordinance to regulate the 'height of awnings along, in front of business houses in the city of Rensselaer, Indiana,” ordained and established, June 22, 1896, and published in Ordinance Record No. 1, page 36 of the ordinance records of said city. Section 2. This ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage and publication once each weetk for two consecutive .weeks in the Evening Republican, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in said city, the first of wheh be on the 9th day of February, 1915, and the. last on the 16th day of February, 1915. Approved and signed by me this Bth d'ay of February, 1915. Oharles G. iSpitler, Mayor by the Common Council of the city of Rensselaer, Indiana, on the Bth day of February, 1915, and approved by the mayor thereof on the Bth day of February, 1915. Chas. iMorlan, City Clerk. State of Indiana, Jasper County, Cfty of Rensselaer, ss: I, Charles Morlan, Clerk of the City of Rensselaer, dO hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true, full and Complete copy of an ordinance of said city, passed on the Bth day of February, 1915, and which now remains on file inmy office. Witness my hand and the official seal of 'said city of Rensselaer, this 9th lay of February, 1915. Chas. iMorlan, City Clerk