No permit shall be required for any of the following signs, but such signs shall be erected and maintained in accordance with the provisions of this section:
A. Official traffic control or regulatory signs, signals or devices, handicapped signs, street name signs or other signs required by law.
B. Professional occupation signs denoting only the name or firm name and profession of an occupant in a commercial building, public institutional building or dwelling house when the area of such sign does not exceed two (2) square feet for each professional occupant therein and placed on or against a building.
C. Memorial tablets, plaques or markers of bronze, stone or concrete.
D. Address numbers or plates and residential nameplates.
E. Bulletin boards not over fifteen (15) square feet, for public charitable and religious institutions when such bulletin boards are located on the premises of said institutions.
F. Off premises directional signs advertising places of public worship and assembly, hospitals, schools and institutions supported by charitable organizations subject to the following conditions:
1. There shall be not more than two (2) such signs on one parcel advertising any one use unless authorized by the planning commission.
2. Each such sign shall not exceed three (3) square feet in area.
3. Temporary signs and banners of a civic, charitable, educational, municipal or religious nature not to exceed a period of ninety (90) days.
4. Pennants, banners, balloons, and similar advertising devices located on private property advertising a special event or sale. Such devices must be removed within seven (7) days of the event.
5. Temporary signs on the interior of windows of commercial buildings.
6. The changing of advertising copy or message on a painted or printed sign specifically designed for the use of replaceable copy. (Ord. 218A, 2011: Ord. 241A, 3-7-2022)