ADVERTISEMENTS BY-LAWS

ADVERTISEMENTS BY-LAWS

ADVERTISEMENTS REGULATION.
ADVERTISEMENTS BY-LAWS.

(Cap. 52, section 3).
(Ordinance No. 19 Of 1912).

[18th June, 1920.]

1. It shall not be lawful for any person by himself or
by any billposter or other person employed by him to affix
or otherwise exhibit any hoarding, notice board or poster
used for the purpose of advertising upon or against private
property without the consent of the owner or his representa-
tive and of the. occupier, or upon or against any railway
without the consent in writing of the administrator of such
railway, or upon or against Grown property without the
consent in writing of the Director of Public Works, or except
by virtue of some other sufficient legal authority : in this
by-law, ''railway' and 'administrator' have the same
meanings as in the Railways Ordinance.

2. (1) It shall not be lawful for any person by himself
or by any authorized agent to erect or fix to or upon or in
connexion with any building, structure or erection of any
kind any sky sign,' and it shall not be lawful to retain any
existing sky sign so erected or fixed except with the licence
of the Urban Council. Every licence shall be subject to such
terms and conditions as shall be therein prescribed.
(2) There shall be paid for each such licence such fee
as the Urban Council i-nay in each case prescribe.

(3) A licence issued under these by-laws shall become
void in any of the following cases-
(a)if any addition to the sky sign is made except for
the purpose of making it secure under the direction
of an authorized architect (within the meaning of the
Buildings Ordinance);
(b)if any change is made in the sky sign or any part
thereof;
(c)if the sky sign or any part thereof falls through
accident, decay, fire, tempest or any other cause
whatever;
(d)if any addition or alteration is made to or in the
building, structure or erection on, over or to which





any sky sign is placed or attached if such addition
or alteration involves the disturbance of the sky sign
or any part thereof ; or
(e)if the building, structure or erection over or on or
to which the sky sign is placed or attached becomes
unoccupied or is demolished or destroyed.

(4) The licensee of every sky sign shall within ten days
after the erection thereof furnish the Commissioner of Police
with three copies of a photograph of such sky sign to the
satisfaction in all respects of the Commissioner of Police.

(5) It shall be lawful for.the Governor by notification in
the Gazette and subject to such conditions as he may think
fit to suspend the operation of this by-law during any period
of public rejoicing.

3. (1) It shall not be lawful for any person by himself
or by any authorized -agent to advertise any saleable - com-
modity by means of any lettering or device on any sail, flag,
mast, spar, wood, awning or hull of any vessel of any
description in the waters of the Colony.

(2) This by-law shall not apply to an), bumboat man
bona fide advertising his own name ' and trade and not
advertising the saleable commodities of another.

4. Nothing in these by-laws shall apply to any person
acting, or to any act done, under direction of the Govern-
ment or of the naval, military or air force authorities.

5. No person shall exhibit any occulting sign or allow
any occulting sign to be exhibited on any premises occupied
by him.

6. No person shall erect or exhibit or permit or suffer
to be erected or exhibited any advertisement which disfigures
the natural beauty of any scenery or affects injuriously the
amenities of any locality.

7. Whenever in the opinion of the Urban Council any
advertisement disfigures the natural beauty of any scenery
or 'affects injuriously the amenities of any locality, a notice
under the hand of the Secretary of the Urban Council shall





be served on the person who caused the advertisement to be
erected or exhibited, if such person can be found, and on the
owner of the land or building on or in which the advertise-
ment is erected or exhibited, requiring such person or owner
to remove the advertisement within fourteen days of the date
of the notice and such person or owner shall remove the
advertisement within such fourteen days.

8. The projection of any advertisement from any
premises, place or spot to the sky, or to any other premises
or place, or to any spot not within or on the premises herein
first mentioned, by reflection, or light beam, or any other
means of or similar to or comparable with magic lantern or
cinematograph projection, is prohibited.

Neon, etc., light signs.
9. On the hoisting of the No. s or any typhoon signal
above that number, electric current supplying the trans-
formers of neon signs attached to the outside of any building
must be cut off and such current must remain cut off so long
as any of the said signals remain hoisted.

10. Every person who proposes to erect or cause to be
erected any neon, electric or other similar light sign on or in
any premises shall notify the Chief Officer of the Fire Brigade
in writing before such sign is erected.

11. No person shall erect or cause to be erected or allow
to remain on or in any.premises occupied or used by him any
such sign which obstructs or renders less effective any fire-
escape or other means of escape in, on or from any building,
or which interferes with road traffic.

12. Whenever it appears to the Chief Officer of the Fire
Brigade that any neon, electric or other similar light sign is
for any reason, including inefficient maintenance, a source
of serious risk of fire, it shall be lawful for him, by notice
in writing specifying the reason, to require the removal of
the sign. Within seven days of the service of any such
notice the person by or for whom the sign was erected and
is maintained shall cause the sign to be removed unless within





such period of seven days lie satisfies the Chief Officer of
the Fire Brigade, by remedying any defect or otherwise,
that the notice can safely be withdrawn.

13. In these by-laws-
'neon sign'~ means any arrangement of glass tubing charged
with neon, argon, helium or other inert gas which when
subjected to electrical pressure gives a bright glow, whe-
ther in the form of letters, characters, model, device,
border or outline, designed to attract public attention to
any building or place on or in which it rnay be affixed.

Penalties and Citation.

14. 1) Any person who acts in contravention of by-law
1, 2(1), 2(4), 3(1), s, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 or 12 shall commit
an offence and shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(2) Upon conviction for an offence- -against any of -the
by-laws mentioned in paragraph (i), an order may be made
for the removal of the advertisement.

(3) Any person who fails to comply with any such order
shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars for every da),
that he is in default and to imprisonment for three months.

15. These by-laws may be cited as the Advertisement
By-laws.

CHAPTER 53.
(Ordinance No. 19 Of 1947).
BRITISH CINEMATOGRAPH FILMS.
No subsidiary legislation.
Regulations - Fraser, vol. 2, p. 720. G.N. 593/39. Ord. 16 of 1940. G.N.A. 87/51. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. (Cap. 99.) Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. (Cap. 123). [by-law 2 cont.] Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. G.N. 593/39. [by-law 12 cont.] G.N.A. 87/51.

Regulations - Fraser, vol. 2, p. 720. G.N. 593/39. Ord. 16 of 1940. G.N.A. 87/51. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. (Cap. 99.) Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. (Cap. 123). [by-law 2 cont.] Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. Ord. 16/40, s. 7. G.N. 593/39. [by-law 12 cont.] G.N.A. 87/51.

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