The following signs shall be exempt from all but the maintenance and public safety requirements of this chapter:
A. Government Signs: Any public notice, warning, directional, and other instructional or regulatory signs required by a valid and applicable federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance.
B. Interior Signs: Any sign inside a building, not attached to a window or door, which cannot be read from vehicles passing on adjoining streets.
C. Nonsign Decorations: Temporary displays, including holiday lights, decorations, painted window areas, works of art, flags (not exceeding 50 square feet), memorial signs, religious or historic symbols, and other displays with no commercial message.
D. Traffic Control Signs: On private property, such as stop, yield, and similar signs which meet Illinois department of transportation standards, and which contain no commercial message.
E. Memorial Signs: Memorial signs or tablets listing names or buildings and date of erection, when cut into any masonry surface or inlaid so as to be part of the building or when constructed of bronze or other incombustible material.
F. Directional And Warning Signs: Signs, not exceeding five (5) square feet in area, which provide instruction, direction or warning and are located entirely on the property to which they pertain to identify restrooms, public telephones, walkways, parking lot entrances and exits, and features of a similar nature or with respect to warnings, "no trespassing", "no dumping", and similar warning signs. Parking lot entrance and exit signs shall not exceed five feet (5') in height.
G. Business Nameplates: Nonelectrical nameplates denoting the business name of an occupation legally conducted on the premises, provided that the sign area does not exceed two (2) square feet in area, provided that no more than one sign per principal use may be erected.
H. Vending Machine Signs: Permanent, nonflashing signs on vending machines, gasoline pumps, ice containers, automated teller machines, or other similar machines. Such signs shall relate only to that which is dispensed by the machine. Such signs may be illuminated only on the front. Logos, names or other promotional information shall be considered the permitted sign. (Ord. 2001-08A, 4-2-2001)