§ 853 — Outdoor advertising

Sec. 853. - Outdoor advertising.

The Board of Commissioners of the City of Memphis shall have authority to regulate, by ordinance, the erection, hanging, placing, painting, displaying, removing, and maintenance of all outdoor signs, bulletin boards, and all other forms of exterior advertising, and/or the erection of scaffolding or equipment to do any such work on the public ways and public space, and on private property within the public view, in the City of Memphis. Said Board of Commissioners shall have authority to require that all persons, firms and corporations engaged in the business of erecting, hanging, placing, painting, displaying, removing, and maintaining of all outdoor signs, bulletin boards, and all other forms of exterior advertising, and/or the erection of scaffolding or equipment to do any such work on the public ways and public space and on private property within public view, shall obtain such license or permit before undertaking to do any of the things enumerated in this section as said Board of Commissioners shall provide, and shall also be required to file a bond with surety to be approved by the official designated by the Board of Commissioners for the taking of such bonds, expressly stipulating and agreeing to pay all damages for personal injuries to any person, or damage to any property which may be caused by the erection, hanging, placing, painting, displaying, removal, or maintenance of said signs, bulletin boards and other forms of exterior advertising, and/or the erection of scaffolding or equipment to do any such work on the public ways and public space and on private property within public view in the City of Memphis.

(Priv. Acts 1937, ch. 121, § 2)