(a) All signs not expressly permitted shall be prohibited in the city.
(b) Such signs include but are not limited to the following:
(1) Roof signs;
(2) Billboards;
(3) Flags intended for advertising or commercial purposes;
(4) Marquee signs;
(5) Electronic reader boards, except for public institutions;
(6) No mobile signs shall be erected, constructed, displayed or maintained except those on licensed commercial delivery and service vehicles. Such vehicles shall not be parked in any district closer to the street than the front line of the principal building, unless the principal building has a rear parking area; in which case, all such vehicles shall not be parked closer to the street than the rear line of the building;
(7) Flashing, moving, inflatable, blinker, racer type, intermittent, rotating, moving or revolving signs, whirligig devices, inflatable signs and tethered balloons, pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners, exposed light bulbs and strings of lights not permanently mounted to a rigid background and other similar types of attention-getting devices;
(8) The interior illumination of signs, except as expressly permitted in § 1286.11(a) and signs with characters, letters, figures, designs or outlines by electric lights or luminous tubes as part of the sign;
(9) Merchandise, equipment, products, vehicles or other items not themselves for sale and placed for attention getting, identification or advertising purposes;
(10) Permanent sign erected or attached to accessory structures;
(11) Outline lighting of the building or roof line;
(12) Internal illumination of all or part of the roof; and
(13) Pole signs.
(Ord. 04-O-28, passed 8-23-2004)