Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly (Permission and Regulating Advertisement Bill boards) Bye-law, 2017

1. No advertisement shall be displayed or be illuminated in any place which is visible from the road, and no advertising vehicle may be placed on the road or on a place which is visible from the road, without the permission of the Assembly, unless it is an advertisement to which is of national importance, being advertisements which are exempted from the provisions of this regulation.2. With respect to existing advertisements, the foregoing provisions of this Bye-law shall not apply unless the Assembly has either:-served a notice on any person displaying an existing advertisement requiring such person to forward to the Assembly a copy of the permit, licence permitting such display, within a period specified in the notice; or-published a notice in the Gazette requiring any person displaying all or any forms of advertisement, or any particular advertisement, or any such advertisements in any area or areas as may be specified in the notice, to forward to the Assembly a copy of the permit, license authorizing such display, within such time as may be specified in the notice.3. In any such case as stated in section 3 of this Bye-law, if any person to whom the notice applies forwards to the Assembly a copy of the permit, license permitting the display of the advertisement, within the period specified in the relevant notice, such permit, license shall thereafter and for all purposes be deemed to be permission given by the Authority pursuant to these regulations.4. Any existing advertisement which has been positioned on the road or in a place which is visible from the road without permit shall be removed by the Assembly without the need to issue an enforcement notice.5.The Assembly shall surcharge the cost of the removal of the illegal signage to the person who mounted the illegal signage.

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Sekondi Takoradi Metropolitan

Sekondi
Email: info@stma.gov.gh
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