All signs not expressly permitted under this chapter or exempt from regulation under § 152.182 are prohibited in the city. The signs include but are not limited to:
(A) Signs containing statements, words or pictures of an obscene or pornographic nature;
(B) Any sign or advertising device painted or displayed on any vehicle or trailer parked on the public right-of-way, public property or private property so as to be prominently visible from a public right-of-way and parked for the flagrant purpose of providing advertisement of products or directing people to a business or activity;
(C) Signs nailed, tacked or otherwise affixed to trees or other vegetation in such a way as to puncture bark;
(D) Handbills, posters, notices or similar attention gathering devices posted or affixed on traffic-control boxes, signs, lamp poles, utility poles or traffic control support;
(E) Animated signs;
(F) Any sign attached to a chimney, on a fence or fence-type wall, retaining wall, fence post, refuse enclosure, utility box, storage shed, satellite dish, antenna or other accessory structure;
(G) Any additional or subsequent sign painted on, attached or otherwise affixed to poles or permitted signs;
(H) Portable signs;
Figure 152.213: Portable Sign
(I) No sign shall be constructed which resembles any official marker erected by the city or any other government agency;
(J) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street or highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles any official traffic-control device, railroad sign or railroad signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic;
(K) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street or highway any sign which hides from view or interferes with the movement of traffic, or inhibits the effectiveness of any traffic-control device, railroad sign or railroad signal; and
(L) No person shall place, maintain or display upon any street or highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(Ord. 10-3277, § 3-3.9, passed 1-4-2010) Penalty, see § 152.999