As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
BILLBOARD (OFF-PREMISES ADVERTISING)
Any outdoor advertising board, junior board advertising medium,
structure or device which advertises, directs or calls attention to
any business, article, substance, service or anything which is painted,
printed, pasted or affixed to any building, structure, wall, fence,
pole, railing, natural object or structure of any kind on real property
or upon the ground itself and which advertises services, products
or commodities not available on the premises on which such billboard
is located. For the purpose of this article, the term "billboard"
does not include billboards erected and maintained pursuant to and
in discharge of any governmental function or required by any law,
ordinance or governmental regulation.
DOUBLE-FACED, BACK-TO-BACK OR V-TYPE BILLBOARDS
Those configurations of multiple billboard structures which
are physically contiguous and which share a common structure, in whole
or in part, and are located not more than 15 feet apart at their nearest
point in the case of a back-to-back or V-type sign. Each face shall
be considered a separate billboard.
ERECT
To construct, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach,
create, paint or in any other way bring into being or establish.
LIGHTING DEVICE
Any light, string of lights or group of lights located or
arranged so as to illuminate a billboard.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company, institution or organization of any kind.
It shall be the duty of the Building Inspector upon the filing
of an application for a permit to erect, reconstruct or structurally
alter a billboard to examine such plans, specifications and other
data submitted for the proposed billboard. It shall be the duty of
said Inspector to issue a permit for the erection, reconstruction
or structural alteration of a proposed billboard, provided that the
proposed billboard is in compliance with all the requirements of this
article as well as all other laws and ordinances of the Village of
Menands.
Any billboard in existence at the effective date of this article that does not comply with this article shall be deemed nonconforming and shall be allowed to remain as such. No nonconforming billboard shall be reconstructed or structurally altered except as provided in §
138-21 of this article.
Any person aggrieved by any decision of the Building Inspector
relative to the provisions of this article may appeal such decision
to the Village Zoning Board of Appeals as provided in the Zoning Law
of the Village of Menands, New York, and shall comply with all procedural requirements prescribed
by such Zoning Board of Appeals.
Failure to comply with any of the provisions of this article
shall be deemed a violation, and the violator shall be liable to a
fine of not more than $50, and each day that such violation continues
shall constitute a separate violation.