Connecticut § 21-52 - Fees.
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§ 21-52. Fees.
Sec. 21-52. Fees. (a) The fee for an application for a permit to erect or maintain any outdoor advertising structure, device or display shall be as follows: For each panel, bulletin, or sign containing less than three hundred square feet of advertising space, one hundred dollars; and for each panel, bulletin or sign containing three hundred square feet or more of advertising space, two hundred dollars.
(b) The annual fee for such permit shall be as follows: For each panel, bulletin or sign containing three hundred square feet or less of advertising space, forty dollars; for each panel, bulletin or sign containing more than three hundred and not more than six hundred square feet of advertising space, eighty dollars; and for each panel, bulletin or sign containing more than six hundred square feet and not more than nine hundred square feet of advertising space, one hundred twenty dollars. No sign shall be erected which contains more than nine hundred square feet of advertising space. A fee shall be paid for each side of each panel, bulletin or sign used for advertising, provided, if two panels, bulletins or signs advertising the same products or services are attached to the same support or supports, only one annual permit fee shall be paid for each side thereof and the total advertising space on each side thereof shall be used for computing the annual permit fee of each panel, bulletin or sign. The annual permit fee for any part of a year shall bear the same proportion to the annual permit fee for an entire year that the number of months in such part bears to the entire year. If any such permit is transferred, the transferee shall be assessed a fee of one hundred dollars.
(1949 Rev., S. 4691; 1959, P.A. 635; P.A. 86-209, S. 2, 4; P.A. 03-115, S. 81; P.A. 13-277, S. 11.)
History: 1959 act increased fees for panels, bulletins or signs with 300 square feet or less from $3 to $5, with not more than 600 square feet from $6 to $10 and with not more than 900 square feet from $9 to $15, added proviso re panels attached to same support or supports and changed technical language; P.A. 86-209 inserted new provision, designated as Subsec. (a) re application fee and made previous provisions Subsec. (b), doubling annual permit fees; P.A. 03-115 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to double all fees, effective July 1, 2003; P.A. 13-277 amended Subsecs. (a) and (b) to double all fees and, in Subsec. (b), to add provision re fee of $100 for transferred permit.
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