The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-05-29
AN ORDINANCE.


An Ordinance to amend an Ordinance
enacted and ordained by The Mayor and Al
dermen of Frederick, on the first day of
August, AID. 1913, entitled San Ordi-
nance prohibiting the erection and provid-
ing for the removal of all hitching posts,
sign posts, awning poles, and posts and
poles of every description, Except tele-
graph, telephone, electric light and trolley
poles and ornamental lighting posts on the
pavements, within three feet of the curb
lines, and prohibiting the tying of animals
of the horse kind to any trees, tree boxes.
telegraph, telephone, electric light and
trolley poles and ornamental lighting
posts, on Market Street, between Clarke
Place and Fifth Street, and on Patrick
Street, between Court Street and Middle
Alley, in Frederick City, Maryland, and
providing penalty for violations thereof"
by adding thereto a new and additional
Section, prescribing certain regulations for
the maintenance and erection of awnings
and signs, to follow Section 3 and to be
known as Section "a
Section l. Be it Enacted and Ordained
by The Mayor and Alderme of Frederick
That, an Ordinance enacted and ordained
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lex, on the first day of August. A. d. 1913.
entitled "An Ordinance prohibiting the
erection and providing for the removal of
all hitching posts, sign posts, awning poles,
and posts and poles of every description,
Except telegraph telephone, electric light
and trolley poles and ornamental lighting
posts on the pavements within three feet
of the curb lines, and prohibiting the tying
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tree boxes, telegraph, telephone, electric
light and trolley poles and ornamental
lighting posts, on Market Street, between
Clarke Place and Fifth Street, and on Pat
rick Street, between Court Street and Mid
die Alley, in Frederick City Maryland,
and providing a penalty for violations
thereof be and the same is hereby amend
ed by adding thereto new and additional
Section, prescribing certain regulations for
the maintenance and erection of awnings
and signs, to follow Section and to be
known as Section "a, be enacted so as to
read as follows:
Section ga. Be it Enacted and Ordained
That, all awnings hereafter erected within
the corporate limits of Frederick shall be
covered with canvas or other movable and
pliable substance and no rigid covering
shall be permitted Every awning and
sign hereafter erected shall be securely at
tached to the building and properly sup
ported, by iron or other metallic fastenings
and supports, or by posts, provided said
posts be erected Immediately next to and
adjoining the building and every such
awning and sign now or hereafter erected
shall be elevated at least seven feet six
inches at the lowest part thereof above the
surface of the sidewalk, no awning hereaf
ter erected shall project more than feet 6
inches over the side walk, and no sign
hereafter erected shall project more than 6
feet beyond the building line. All avn
ings and signs now erected supported by
trees, posts, poles or structures of any
kind, planted in or resting upon the side
walks, Except such supports which are
Immediately next to and adjoining the
building), on Market Street between
Clarke Place and Fifth Street and on Pat
rick Street between Court Street and Mid
die Alley, shall be removed by the owner,
his agent or agents, of the property, in
front of which any such awning or sign is
erected, within ten days after being mott
fed to remove the same by the City Engi-
neer, by notice in writing, if the owner is
out of the City the notice shall be posted
in some conspicuous place on the premises.
and in the event the owner shall, after no.
tice, fail to remove any such awning OF
ssgn, within the time aforesaid, then the
same shall be removed by the City Engi-
neer, and the costs aid expenses of such
removal shall be charged to the owner.
and on failure to pay the same the amount
due shall be collected either by suit at law,
or by suit or attachment in case the owner
be nonresident. Any person who shall
fail or refuse to remove any awning or sign
supported as aforesaid, within the limits
hereinbefore sdescribed, after notice, shall
be liable to the fines and penalties set forth
in Section of said Ordinance of August
first, A. d. 1918, and the City Engineer
shall serve or post the aforesaid notices
within five days after the passage of this
ordinance. Any person who shall main
tain or erect any awning or sign contrary
to the provisions hereof or refuse or neglect
forthwith to remove any awning or sign
maintained or erected contrary to the pro-
visions hereof shall be subject to the fines
and penalties set forth in the 4th Section of
said Ordinance of August first, A. D. 1918;
and any such awning or sign may forth
with be removed. The Mayor and Alder
men OF Frederick hereby expressly reserve
the right to alter and change the regula-
tions for the rection of awnings and signs
specified in this Ordinance, and from time
to time, make such new and additional
rules and regulations for the erection and
maintenance of awnings and signs, as it
shall think proper.
Section 2. Be it Enacted and Ordained
by the authority aforesaid that this Ordi-
nance shall take effect from the date of its
passage, and that all ordinances, OF parts
OF ordinances, inconsistent with the provi-
sions of this Ordinance, be and the same
are hereby repealed, to the extent of such
inconsistency.
Passed May 18th, A. d. 1914.
President Board of Aldermen.
LEWIS H. FRALEY.
Approved May 18th, A. D. 1914.
LEWIS H. FRALEY, Mayor.
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