The following signs are considered to be unsafe, dangerous and hazardous, an attractive nuisance or nuisance, therefore, these signs shall not be permitted, erected or maintained in any zoning district:
(A) Any sign for which a permit has not been issued and which is not a permitted sign is prohibited, excluding any existing legal non-conforming sign.
(B) Signs which incorporate in any manner any flashing or moving lights, not including LED panels.
(C) Street banners, pennants, spinners and streamers, and inflatable figures, except as specifically permitted in accordance with other sections of this chapter.
(D) Any sign or sign structure which:
(1) is structurally unsafe;
(2) Constitutes a hazard to the safety or health of person or property by reason of inadequate design, fabrication, mounting or maintenance or because it has been abandoned;
(3) Is not kept in good repair; or
(4) Is capable of causing electrical shocks to persons that may come in contact with it.
(E) Any sign which by reason of it size, location, content, coloring, intensity or manner of illumination constitutes a traffic hazard or a detriment to traffic safety by obstruction of visibility or creation of driver confusion of any traffic sign or control device on any public street or road.
(F) Any sign which obstructs free ingress or egress from a required door, window, fire escape, driveway or other required access route.
(G) Any sign or other advertising structure or display which conveys, suggests, indicates or otherwise implies by pictures, drawings, words, emblems, logos or other communication methods including, which relate to but not limited to, human genitalia, sexual acts, adult nude human bodies, obscene words or obscene gestures.
(H) Any permanently mounted sign, hereafter existing of which the purpose of the sign has ended, ceases to exist or is over, shall be removed by the owner within 30 calendar days after a business closes or vacates the premises; if the sign face removed exposes any electrical equipment, lighting, etc., it shall be required that the face be replaced with a blank covering.
(I) Any sign, except traffic or other municipal approved signs, as permitted in this chapter that is located in or projects into or over a public right-of-way or dedicated easement.
(J) Any sign that exceeds the height limitation for structures in the zoning district in which it is located, or a wall sign that extends beyond or above the structure to which the sign is affixed, except as may specifically be provided for in other provisions.
(K) Placards, posters, circulars, show bills, handbills, cards, leaflets or other advertising matter, except as otherwise provided herein, shall not be posted, pasted, nailed, placed, printed, stamped or in any way attached to any fence, wall, post, tree, sidewalk, pavement, platform, pole, tower, curbstone or surface in or upon any public easement, right-of-way or any public or private property without the consent, authorization or ratification of the owner of the property. However, nothing herein shall prevent official notices of the township, school districts, county, state or federal government from being posted on any public property deemed necessary. All placards, posters, circulars, show bills, handbills, cards, leaflets or other advertising matter posted, pasted, nailed, placed, printed, stamped on any right-of-way or public property may be removed and disposed of by the Township Code Enforcement Officer without regard to other provisions of this chapter.
(L) Roof signs, which project above, the roof line of a building.
(M) No portion of a privately-owned sign, or its supporting structures, such as poles or cables, shall be placed on, or within the air space above, publicly-owned property, a public right-of-way (such as a street or sidewalk) or a proposed public right-of-way.
(N) Signs which obstruct free use of a roadway, required door, window, fire escape or other required exit way. No sign may obstruct the clear vision area.
(O) Off-premise portable signs located on vacant parcels except those with valid permits as required by the Michigan Department of Transportation and regulated by the Highway Advertising Act, 106 of 1972, being M.C.L.A. §§ 252.301 et seq.
(Ord. 03-05, passed 6-17-2003; Ord. 06-02, passed 4-18-2006; Ord. 14-08, passed 8-26-2014; Ord. 16-06, passed 12-19-2016)