A. Prohibited Types:
1. Movable or portable signs and signs not permanently installed in the ground or on a pole or building such as "A-frame", pedestal, or similar sign devices, except as otherwise allowed by this chapter;
2. Off premises signs, including billboards per ordinance 309, except as otherwise provided in this title;
3. Signs located on public property or attached to any structure or appurtenance on public property except public necessity signs or as otherwise provided in this chapter. These signs may be removed by the city or other public agencies owning the public property;
4. Bench signs located on private property within forty feet (40') of the public right of way or on public property;
5. Home occupation signs;
6. Signs which create a nuisance or hazard to the public safety;
7. Obsolete or abandoned signs or messages which identify services no longer provided on the premises;
8. Flashing or strobelike lighting effects;
9. Sound emitting devices;
10. Signs which project more than twenty four inches (24") from a wall;
11. Snipe signs;
12. New and relocated billboards and outdoor advertising, except under conditions described in section 9-10-12 of this chapter;
13. Signs for unlicensed businesses, or unlicensed or unauthorized activities required to obtain or hold licenses or other permits; any sign or signs promoting unlawful activity; or
14. Any other sign not complying with the provisions of this chapter, or any prior ordinance.
B. Prohibited Locations: No advertising display shall be placed in any of the following locations:
1. Within the right of way of any highway, road or other public easement, or within a future right of way, except as expressly authorized in this chapter;
2. Within any stream or drainage channel;
3. In any location that would prevent a traveler of a highway, street or driveway from obtaining a clear view of approaching traffic for a distance of not less than five hundred feet (500');
4. So as to interfere with, mislead, obstruct the view of or be confused with any directional, warning, danger, signal or informational sign or structure, either required by law or established by local authority; or
5. Above a canopy or marquee, or upon a roof, except that the following may be permitted:
a. A mansard roof may be treated as a wall for sign purposes when such roof is more nearly vertical than horizontal, subject to the provisions of these regulations; or
b. A sign upon a parapet if such a parapet is continuous along the entire top of the wall upon which it is constructed and is constructed and is of the same surface appearance as the wall.
C. Prohibited Displays: Displays or signs of the following nature are prohibited:
1. Imitations or simulations of any directional, warning, danger or informational signs;
2. Illumination of such brilliance and/or position as to blind or dazzle the vision of travelers;
3. Displays containing statements, words or suggestions or pictures of an obscene, indecent or immoral character;
4. Misleading, erroneous or false information and advertising;
5. Those that emit any sound as part of the advertising message; or
6. Portable or mobile signs which are placed upon, affixed to or hung from a portable, natural or contrived appliance, structure, trailer, flatbed, vehicle or thing, susceptible or capable of being used for advertising, except as provided in subsection 9-10-5X of this chapter. (Ord. 412, 10-28-2008, eff. 11-27-2008)