All signs not expressly permitted in this Chapter shall be prohibited in the Village. Such signs include but are not limited to the following:
(a) Billboards;
(b) Flags intended for advertising or commercial purposes;
(c) (EDITOR’S NOTE: Former subsection (c) was repealed by Ordinance 13-103, passed April 4, 2013.)
(d) Kiosk signs;
(e) Advertising signs which are attached to, mounted on, pasted on, painted or drawn on any vehicle, whether motorized or not, which is placed or parked at a location for the basic purpose of directing attention to products or business activity, sold on or off premises, except those permanent signs on commercial vehicles regularly used in the normal course of business. Such commercial vehicles shall not be parked closer to the street than the rear line of a building for a continuous period of 48 hours if the principal building has a rear parking area.
(f) Temporary directional signs, other than Municipal or emergency signs or those temporary signs as may be approved by Village Council.
(g) Flashing, moving, inflatable, blinker, racer type, intermittent, rotating, moving or revolving signs, whirligig devices, tethered inflatable signs, 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.
(h) The interior illumination of signs, except as expressly permitted in Section 1165.08(a)(2) and signs with characters, letters, figures, designs or outlines by electric lights or luminous tubes as part of the sign.
(i) Merchandise, equipment, products, vehicles or other items not themselves for sale and placed for attention getting, identification or advertising purposes.
(j) Permanent signs erected or attached to accessory structures.
(Ord. 09-111. Passed 4-16-09.)
(k) No sign shall be placed on any curb, sidewalk, post, pole, hydrant, bridge, wall, tree, or other surface or structure located on public property or over or across any public street except as expressly authorized by the Mayor, Village Administrator, or the Zoning Inspector. The Village and any of its employees shall have the right, without notice, to remove any signs posted in violation of Section 1165.07(k), and to dispose of such signs in any manner approved by the Village Administrator, without compensation to the owner of the sign. No sign so removed shall be returned to the owner of the sign absent a payment by said owner to the Village of $50.00 per sign removed.
(Ord. 17-135. Passed 12-7-17.)