Any person operating, or causing the operation of an adult regulated facility shall comply with the signage requirements set forth in the City of Metropolis Zoning Ordinance. However, the following requirements shall apply to signage for an adult regulated facility. In the event that conditions imposed by this section are either more restrictive or less restrictive than comparable conditions imposed by any other section, law, ordinance, resolution, rule or regulations of any kind, the regulations which are more restrictive shall govern.
(A) Only one sign (a wall sign) shall be allowed for each adult regulated facility to advertise, promote or identify such adult regulated facility. No adult regulated facility shall be advertised, promoted or identified on any other on-premise, or off-premise; nor shall an adult regulated facility be advertised, promoted or identified on any street graphic or billboard.
(B) Such wall sign shall be a flat plane, rectangular in shape and have no more than one display surface. The display surface shall not exceed 32 square feet in area and shall not exceed five feet in height or ten feet in length.
(C) No sign pertaining to an adult regulated facility shall contain or display photographs, silhouettes, drawings or pictorial representations of any manner, and may only contain the following:
(1) The name of the business; and/or
(2) One or more of the following phrases:
(a) Adult bookstore.
(b) Adult cabaret.
(c) Adult massage parlor.
(3) Signs for adult cabarets may contain the additional phrase “Movie Titles Posted Inside Premises”;
(4) Each letter forming a word on a sign shall be of a solid color, and each such letter shall be the same font, size and color. The background behind such lettering on the display surface of the sign shall be of a uniform and solid color.
(D) The following signs are prohibited by, and with regard to, an adult regulated facility: projecting signs; marquee signs; window signs; illuminated signs; signs that move or simulate movement; signs that extend above the roofline; freestanding signs, and temporary signs.
(Ord. 2013-22, passed 11-25-2013) Penalty, see § 156.486