Control & Regulate Signboards, Billboards, Etc. Bylaw 586 — full text

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A By-Law of the Town of Wembley in the Province of Alberta to control and Regulate Signboards, Billboards, or other Advertising Devices on Public Property. EREAS the Municipal Government Act, Chapter M-26 of the Revised Statut : Alberta 1980, Section 166 gives a Municipality certain powers in rega he phanent public aces signs an I public places, including the power to prohibit and contro THEREAS the Council of the Town of Wembley deems it advisable to authoriz he removal of signboards or billboards or other advertising devices erected or maintained without permit or license. NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Town of Wembley, in the Province of Alberta duly assembled, hereby enacts as follows: ## DEFINITIONS 1. This By-law may be cited as "The Wembley Public Property Sign By-Law". 2. "Advertising Device" means a signboard, billboard, structure or fixture for the advertising or calling attention to any person, matter, object or event. 3. "Highway" means any thoroughfare, driveway, street, road, trail, avenue. parkway, lane, alley, or other place, whether publicly or privately owned, any part of which the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles. and 4. (a) Includes - (1) a sidewalk (including a boulevard portion thereof). 6. (1i) where a ditch lies adjacent to and parallel with the roadway, the ditch, and - (111) where a highway right-of-way is contained between fences or between a fence and one side of the roadway, all the land between the fence and the edge of the roadway, as the case may be, but - does not include a place declared by the Lieutenant Governor in Council not to be a highway. 4. "Public Place" means any land owned by the Town of Wembley, including lands that are used as Utility Lots, Playgrounds, Recreational Areas, Public Parks, Municipal Reserves, Buffers, Boulevards, Parkways, Ornamental Areas or Squares. ## REGULATIONS 5. No signboard, billboard or other advertising device shall be placed upon any wall or fence or elsewhere on or adjacent to a highway or publie place, unless authority has been granted by the Town pursuant to a permit upon such terms and conditions as the Town may determine. 24223 6. Any signboard, billboard or other advertising device placed on any wall or fence or elsewhere on or adiacent to a highway or public place withWithout any shall be Wabie to ree valendestruction by the Torm any notice or warning to the owner thereof. th  7. Any signboard, billboard of other advertising device removed in accordance with this section must be claimed within 60 removal by the Town. A charge of $150.00 shall be levied for its 8. Any signboard, billboard or other advertising device not claimed within Municipal Government Act. ## GENERAL 9. This By-law commences upon the date of its finally being passed.   READ A FIRST TIME and SECOND TIME this 12th 1994. day of September With? ,A.D. Kaw stunte. Administrator READ A THIRD TIME AND FINALLY PASSED this 1994. 27th day of September, A.l date aube. Mayor Au Administrator Strinke