§ 153.278  PROHIBITED SIGNS.
   (A)   All animated signs and all flashing signs that have on and off phases.
   (B)   All wind signs that include streamers, banners, balloons, and similar wind activated materials, except at grand openings-closings and special events as regulated in § 153.277.
   (C)   Obsolete signs advertising for longer than 30 days a discontinued business, service, or activity or directional signs for a business, service, or activity which has changed the location to which it directs.
   (D)   Signs resembling or imitating traffic control signs or other government signs.
   (E)   Signs erected or placed which partially or completely obstructs the view or the face of another sign.
   (F)   Parking of advertising vehicles. No person shall park any vehicle or trailer so as to be visible from a public right-of-way, which has attached thereto or thereon any sign or advertising device for the basic purpose of providing advertisement of products or directing people to a business or activity located on the same or nearby property.
   (G)   Any external sign with lights which blink, flash, move, rotate, scintillate, flicker, vary in intensity or color, or use intermittent electrical pulsation’s, except light which are placed behind rigid, permanently affixed translucent panels and approved by conditional use. Time-temperature-date signs incorporating the use of blinking lights to display a message or graphic shall be permitted if a conditional use permit is granted and provided two of the following are displayed within each message cycle as a public service: time, temperature, or date. Electronic message signs as previously defined are not prohibited.
   (H)   Any sign which contains words, statements, or pictures of an obscene nature, or any sign which would violate the provisions of Idaho Code Title 18, Chapter 41 1 .
   (I)   Any sign which is structurally unsafe or constitutes a hazard to safety or health by reason of inadequate maintenance or dilapidation or placement.
   (J)   Signs with direct rays of light which penetrate a property used for residential purposes or which may cause a glare, impair the vision of, or otherwise interfere with the driver of any motor vehicle.
(Ord. 2006-3, passed 5-8-2006)

 

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