(i) “Area of special control” means an area so defined in the Advertisement Zonning Plan.
(ii) “Advertisement Zonning Plan” means the numbered plan signed by j the Chief Administrator and kept in his office defining the areas of special control and restrictions regarding the advertisements and skysigns applicable to such areas.
(iii) “Commercial Buildings” shall mean a building used or constructed or adapted to be used wholly or principally for shops, offices, banks or other similar purposes or for industries other than factories, and shall include motor garage where general repairs are done or carried out to motor vehicles or motor cycles.
(iv) “Enclosed land” shall mean the land which is wholly or for the most part enclosed within hedge, fence, wall or similar screen or structure and shall not include any railway station together with the yards and . , fore court thereof, whether enclosed or not, any public park, public garden or other land held for the use or enjoyment of the public.
(v) “Name plate” shall mean an advertisement announcing the name of owner and; or name of occupier of a building and/or name of a building, upon which such advertisement is fixed, exhibited painted, pasted, retained or displayed, provided that the size of the letters constituting such advertisement does not exceed 2” in height and the total space occupied by such an advertisement does not exceed 4 square feet.
(vi) “Sky-sign” shall mean any work, letter, model sign, device or representation in the nature of an advertisement, announcement or direction, supported on or attached to any post, pole, standard framework or other support wholly or in part upon or over any land, building or structure which or any part of which sky-sign shall be visible against the sky from some point in any street and includes all and every part of any such post, pole, standard frame work or other support. It shall also include any balloon parachute or other similar device employed wholly or in part for the purpose of any advertisement, announcement [290] Chandigarh Advertisement Control Order, 1954 291 or direction upon or over any land, building or structure or upon or over any street, but shall not include -
(a) any flage staff, pole, vane or whether cock, unless adapted or used wholly or in part for the purpose of any advertisement, announcement or direction:
(b) any word letter, model, sign, device or representation as aforesaid relating exclusively to the business of a railway company and placed wholly upon or over any railway, railway station yard, platform and station approach belonging to a railway company;
and
(c) any notice of land or building to be sold or let, placed upon such land or building.
(vii) “Structure” shall include a tramcar, omnibus and any other vehicle and any movable, board used primarily as an advertisement or an advertising medium and also a post, pole, tree, bridge, embankment and road surface.
(viii) “Illuminated advertisement” shall mean any advertisement which is self-luminous or is illuminated by an outside source of light, but shall not include an illuminated display of goods if such display -
(a) is of goods merely bearing tables showing the names of articles or of its manufacturer or of both; and
(b) is made by lighting which is not, in the opinion of the Chief Administrator more than is necessary to make the goods and labels visible at night' ****
3. Regulation as to sky-signs, - (1) No person shall without the written permission of the Chief Administrator, erect, fix or retain any sky-sign, whether now existing or not, and no such written permission shall be granted or renewed for any period exceeding ‘[Five years] from the date of such permission or re newal :
Provided that on the happening of any one or more of the following contin gencies a written permission or renewal by the Chief Administrator under this.
Clause shall become void namely:
(a) if any addition to the sky-sign is made except for the purpose of making it secure under the direction of the Chief Administrator;
(b) if any change is made in the sky-sign or any part thereof;
(c) if the sky-sign or any part thereof fall either through accident decay or any other cause;
(d) if any addition or alteration is made, to or in the building or structure upon or over which the sky-sign is erected, fixed or retained, if such addition or alteration involves the disturbance of the sky-sign or any part thereof;
(e) if the building or structure upon over which the sky-sign is erected, < fixed or retained becomes un-occupied or is demolished or.
destroyed; and
(f) if the premises for which permission has been given are altered in any manner, whatever.
(2) If any sky-sign be erected, fixed or retained contrary to the provision of this Order or after permission for the erection, fixation or retention thereof for any period shall have expired or become void, the Chief Administrator may by written1. Substituted for "3 years" vide Pb. Govt. Gaz. Notification No. C-2363-58/V/5106 dated 22-3- 1958 292 Chandigarh Advertisement Control Order, 1954 notice, require the owner or occupier of the land, building or structure upon or over which the sky-sign is erected, fixed or retained to take down and’remove or modify, as the case may be, such sky-sign, within the time not exceeding 30 days as may be fixed by him.
(3) Where any sky-sign shall be erected, fixed or retained after the coming into force of this clause upon or over any land, building or structure, save and except as permitted as hereinfor provided, the owner or person in occupation of such land, building or structure shall be deemed to be the person who has erected, fixed or retained such sky-sign contravention of the provisions of this clause, un less he proves that such contravention was committed by a person not in his employment or under his control, or was committed without his connivance.