"Sign" means any words, lettering, parts of letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names or trademarks by which anything is made known, such as those used to designate an individual, a firm, an association, a corporation, a profession, a business, a commodity or a product, which are visible from any public highway or street and used to attract attention, with the following exceptions:
(a) Painted or lettered signs on the surface of windows or doors;
(b) Traffic signs pertaining to the City, County, State or Federal Government;
(c) Municipal signs pertaining to the City;
(d) House numbers;
(e) Nameplates;
(f) Legal notices;
(g) Railroad crossing signs;
(h) Danger signs;
(i) Temporary, emergency nonadvertising signs approved by the Zoning Inspector;
(j) Memorial tablets, name of building, date of erection; use of building, when built into or attached to the walls of the building, and constructed of bronze, brass, marble, stone or other incombustible material.
(Ord. 11-86. Passed 3-4-86.)