The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1915-12-23

lower edge thereof and the surface of
the ground of not less than twenty
inches, nor more than twenty-four
inches. No billboard or signboard
shall be more than twelve feet in
height measured from the base line of
the surface of the same. For the pur-
poses of this act every twenty-four
feet lengthwise of any billboard or
signboard or any separate signboard
of any size shall be considered as a
unit and as a separate billboard or
signboard and be subject to a separate
license and permit as hereinafter pro-
vided. Every such signboard or bill
board shall have at the top thereof the
name of the owner, agent or lessee
thereof
Section 3. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
erect, construct or maintain, or cause
to be erected, constructed or main
tanned, within Fire District No. One
of the Town of Lynden as said district
is now or hereafter established by
ordinance of said Town, any billboard,
or signboard unless the same be built
or constructed entirely of metal or
other non-cumbustible material in all
upon which such construction rests
and the moulding strips OF wood.
Section 4. 1t shall eb unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
erect or construct any billboard or
signboard in any block on any public
street in which one half of the build
ings on both sides of the street are
used exclusively for residence pur-
poses without first obtaining the con-
sent in writing of the owners or duly
authorized agents of said owners own
ing a majority of the frontage of the
property on both sides of the street
in the block in which such billboard or
signboard is to be erected, constructed
or located. Such written consents
shall be filed with the Town Clerk
before a permit shall be issued for the
erection, construction or location of
such billboard or signboard.
Section 5. The fee to be charged for
the permits or licenses issued for the
erection, construction and mainten-
ance of billboards or signboards shall
be Five ($5.00) Dollars per year, pay
able in advance, for each twenty
four lineal feet or less of billboard or
signboard. The license year for the
purposes of this act shall be from the
31st day of December at II o'clock p.
m. to the next succeeding 31st day of
December, at IL o'clock p. m; pro-
vided that permits for fraction OF a
remaining license year shall be issued
upon payment only of pro-rata
amount for such fraction of such IL.
cenSe year.
Section 6. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation erect
ing, constructing owning or con-
trolling any billboard or signboard
within the Town of Lynden to fall,
refuse or neglect to remove or cause
to be removed at all times. weeds, rub
bish, waste paper or any inflammaDle
waste or material from the base OF
any billboard or signboard and all
loose paper and material on the sur,
face of such billboard or signboard.
Section Z. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to ex-
hibit post or display, or cause or per-
NIT to be exhibited, posted or dis
played, upon any billboard or sign
board, any statement, words or signs
of an obscene, indecent or immoral
nature, or any picture, illustration or
delineation of any human figure In
such detail as to offend public mo-
rality or decency, or any lewd or las
civious act, or any other matter or
thing of an obscene, indecent or I'M
moral nature, or offensive to the moral
sense, or any murder, suicide, rob
berry, hold-up, shooting, stabbing, club
bing or beating of any human being,
wherein any such act is shown IN
gruesome detail or in revolving man.
ner, or in any manner Objectionable to
the moral sense.
Section 8. 1t shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to,
after the expiration of twelve tl9
monhs from the date this ordinance
becomes effective. maintain any bill
board or signboard contrary to the
provisions of this ordinance.
Section g. That any person. firm or
corporation violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinance shall be
deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be pun
ishable by a fine OF not more than
Fifty (s5O.00) Dollars, or by imprison,
ment in the city Jail for period OF
not more than ten days, or both such
fine and Imprisonment. Each person.
firm or corporation shall be deemed
guilty of a separate offense for every
day during any portion of which any