Subject: 10407/Code/24-268(a)/SignsOnSidewalks
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 16:49:24 -0500


                             ORDINANCE NO.   10407 
                 
                 
                  AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHATTANOOGA CITY CODE,
                  PART II, CHAPTER 24, SECTION 24-268(a),
                  RELATIVE TO DISPLAY OF UNAUTHORIZED SIGNS.
                 
                 
                                                    
                 
                 
       	    	 SECTION 1.  BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
       CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, that Chattanooga City Code, Part
       II, Section 24-268(a) be and hereby is amended by deleting said
       subsection in its entirety and inserting in lieu thereof the
       following:
            (a)	 No person shall place, maintain or display upon or
                 in view of any public right-of-way any unauthorized
                 sign, signal, flag, marking or device which
                 purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles
                 an official traffic-control device or which hides
                 from view or interferes with the effectiveness of
                 any official traffic-control device or any railroad
                 sign or signal.  In the area bordered on the north
                 by the north bank of the Tennessee River, on the
                 west by Highway 27, on the south by Fourth Street
                 and on the east by Georgia Avenue, no person shall
                 place, maintain, use or display upon any public
                 right-of-way, including sidewalks, any unauthorized
                 sign, signal, flag, whistle, marking or device
                 which impedes the normal flow of traffic or results
                 in any impediment to the normal flow of traffic on
                 the public streets.  This subsection shall not
                 apply to newspaper vending machines.
           
       	    	 SECTION 2.  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this ordinance
       shall take effect two weeks from and after its passage as 
required
       by law.
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       PASSED on Third and Final
       Reading April 30, 1996.	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	          CHAIRPERSON
      
       	    	      	   	     APPROVED: __X__ DISAPPROVED:_______
      
       	    	      	   	     DATE:  April 30, 1996.
      
      
       	    	      	   	     s/s_________________________________
       	    	      	   	     	       	    MAYOR
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