Subject: 9611/Signs/emergency/Sec.3-21
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1989 08:45:00 -0500


                                ORDINANCE NO. 9611
                  
                  
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                   PART II, SECTIONS 3-21 AND 3-102 RELATIVE TO
                   TRAFFIC DIRECTIONAL SIGNS FOR EMERGENCY CARE
                   FACILITIES.
                  
                                                    
                  
                  
                  
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, that Chattanooga City Code, Part
       II, Section 3-21 be and the same is hereby amended by adding a 
new
       subsection (k) as follows:
                   (k)	Off-premise traffic directional signs for
                   licensed facilities offering twenty-four hour
                   medical emergency room service shall be
                   permitted without regard to the provisions of
                   subsections (d), (e) and (g) of this Section
                   3-21, provided, that any person desiring to
                   erect such a sign shall first obtain a special
                   permit from the Board of Sign Appeals pursuant
                   to the provisions of Section 3-102 of this
                   Chapter.
                  
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that Chattanooga City
       Code, Part II, Section 3-102 be and the same is hereby amended by 

       adding thereto a new subsection (d) as follows:
                   (d)	To hear and rule on requests for special
                   permits for off-premise traffic directional
                   signs for licensed facilities offering
                   twenty-four medical emergency room service; no
                   such sign shall be permitted with any message
                   thereon other than ordinary and customary
                   traffic directions to such facility.  The
                   Board in its discretion may impose such
                   reasonable conditions on the size, height and
                   placement of such traffic directional signs as
                   it deems appropriate for traffic safety.  Any
                   such traffic directional sign operated or
                   maintained in violation of any condition
                   placed upon it by the Board of Sign Appeals in
                   the special permit for such sign is hereby
                   declared to be a violation of the provisions
                   of this Chapter and subject to abatement as
                   set forth in Article I of this Chapter.
                  
       	    	 SECTION 3.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this Ordinance
       shall be effective immediately upon its passage, the public 
health,
       safety and welfare requiring same.
       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading  Sept. 10, 1991.	     
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       	    	      	   	     	         CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED:_______ DISAPPROVED:_______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:_________________ ______, 1991.
      
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       	    	      	   	     	             MAYOR
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