(A) Primary and secondary signs. Notwithstanding City of Harker Heights Ordinance 92-19 as amended or any other city ordinance, code or regulation to the contrary, it shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any enterprise or any other person to erect, construct, or maintain any sign for the enterprise other than one primary sign and one secondary sign, as provided herein.
(1) Primary signs shall have no more than two display surfaces. Each such display surface shall:
(a) Not contain any flashing lights;
(b) Be a flat plane, rectangular in shape;
(c) Not exceed 75 square feet in area; and
(d) Not exceed ten feet in height or ten feet in length;
(2) Secondary signs shall have only one display surface. Such display surface shall:
(a) Be a flat plane, rectangular in shape;
(b) Not exceed 20 square feet in area;
(c) Not exceed five feet in height and four feet in width;
(d) Be affixed or attached to any exterior wall or door of the enterprise; and not contain any flashing lights.
(3) Primary and secondary signs shall not contain any wording, photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representations which describe or depict specified anatomical areas or specified sexual activities. In addition, primary and secondary signs shall not contain any wording, photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representations whose dominant theme taken as a whole:
(a) Appeals to a prurient interest of a minor in sex, nudity or excretion;
(b) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable for minors; and
(c) Lacks serious social value for minors.
(4) Each letter forming a word on a primary or secondary sign shall be of a single color, and each such letter shall be the same print-type, size and color. The background behind such lettering on the display surface of a primary sign shall be of a uniform and solid color.
(B) Compliance with restrictions. Any sign located on the premises of a commercial multi-unit center that displays the name, or any portion of the name of any sexually oriented business, any name under which any sexually oriented business was formerly operated on the premises, or any other terminology that is commonly used to identify, or is associated with the presence of a sexually oriented business, shall comply with all restrictions of this section. The intent of this section is to prevent the use of signage identifying the commercial multi-tenant center itself from being used as a subterfuge to evade the restrictions on adult oriented business signs set forth in this section.
(Ord. 97-6, passed 4-22-97)