1179.02 DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Zoning Code, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) “Sign” means any structure or part thereof, or any device attached to, or painted directly or indirectly on, a structure or parcel of land and which displays or includes any letter, model, banner, pennant, insignia, device or other representation to direct attention to a person, institution, organization, activity, place, object, product or business when the same is placed in view of the general public.
(b) “Approved combustible material” means wood or materials not more combustible than wood, and approved combustible plastics.
(c) “Approved combustible plastics” means only those plastics which, when tested in accordance with the American Society for Testing Materials standard method for test for flammability of plastics over 0.050 inch in thickness (D635-77), burn no faster than 2.5 inches per minute in sheets of 0.060 inch thickness.
(d) “Electrical sign” means any sign which has characters, letters, figures, designs, faces, backgrounds or outlines illuminated by incandescent or fluorescent lamps or luminous tubes as part of the sign proper, these light sources being either external or internal.
(e) “Display surface” means the entire area within a single continuous perimeter enclosing the extreme limits of a sign and in no case passing through or between any adjacent elements of the same. However, such perimeter shall not include any structural elements lying outside the limits of such sign and not forming an integral part of the display.
(f) “Structure” means the supports, uprights, bracing and framework for the sign or outdoor display.
(g) “Structural trim” means the molding, battens, cappings, nailing strips, latticing, platforms and letters, figures, characters or representations in cut-out or irregular form which are attached to the sign structure.
(h) “Facing” means the surface of the sign upon, against or through which the message of the sign is exhibited.
(Ord. 72-13. Passed 7-11-72.)