1. "Blade sign" - see "projecting sign."
2. "Commercial sign" - any sign that advertises or identifies a product, business, service, entertainment, or any other matter of a commercial nature, even though the matter may be related to a nonprofit organization.
3. "Conditionally permitted uses" - within residential districts, educational institutions and facilities, religious institutions and facilities, public buildings or facilities, public or private nursing homes, and commercial nurseries.
4. "Copy and graphic" - the wording and other display messages such as logos or symbols on a sign.
5. "Copy and graphic area" - the area in square feet of the smallest four-sided figure which encloses the copy and graphic of a sign.
6. "Dynamic display" - any characteristics of a sign that appear to have movement or that appear to change, caused by any method other than physically removing and replacing the sign or its components, whether the apparent movement or change is in the display, the sign structure itself, or any other component of the sign. This includes a display that incorporates a technology or method allowing the sign face to change the image without having to physically or mechanically replace the sign face or its components. This also includes any rotating, revolving, moving, flashing, blinking, or animated display and any display that incorporates rotating panels, LED lights manipulated through digital input, "digital ink" or any other method or technology that allows the sign face to present a series of images or displays.
7. "Feather flag" - a freestanding, temporary sign constructed of a vertical pole, tube or post supporting one edge of a sheet of cloth, vinyl or similar material.
8. "Freestanding sign" - a sign which is self-supporting and affixed to a frame structure not attached to a building.
9. "Illumination, internal" - a light source within the sign.
10. "Illumination, external" - a light source which is not internal to the sign.
11. "Items of information" - individual copy and graphic items situated in a manner which presents separate messages. An item of information can only be a name, an address, a logo, or geographic directions.
12. "Limited tenant building" - a commercial retail establishment or a group of commercial retail establishments with the designed occupancy of three or less tenants. It must have shared parking and a visual appearance of a contiguous structure, which may or may not be planned, constructed or managed as a total entity. This includes single tenant retail structures.
13. "Merchandise box" - a sign which is affixed on or located adjacent to a gas pump and used to advertise services and goods.
14. "Monument sign" - a sign not supported by exposed posts or poles which is architecturally designed and located directly at grade where the base width dimension is 50% or more of the greatest width of the sign.
15. "Monument area" - the area in square feet of an entire monument sign structure, including copy and graphic area.
16. "Multi-tenant building" - a building with a designed occupancy of four or more tenants with shared parking and visual appearance as a contiguous structure, which may or may not be planned, constructed or managed as a total entity.
17. "Non-commercial sign" - any sign that is not a commercial sign, including but not limited to signs that convey messages concerning political, religious, social, ideological, public service and informational topics.
18. "On-premise sign" - a sign relating in it subject matter to, or which directs attention to, a business, person, activity, commodity, service or entertainment located on the site where the sign is installed.
19. "Off-premise sign" - a sign relating in its subject matter to, or that directs attention to, a business, person, activity, commodity, service, entertainment or any other matter that is not available, or does not take place, on the same premises as the sign. A discontinued sign is an off-premise sign.
20. "Outdoor advertising sign" - a permanent off-premise sign.
21. "Permanent sign" - any sign other than a temporary sign.
22. "Portable sign" - a sign with or without copy and graphic that is designed or intended to be moved or transported. Examples of portable signs are: A - or T - frame signs; sandwich signs; signs designed to be transported by trailer or on wheels; signs mounted on a vehicle for advertising purposes, when the vehicle is parked and visible from public right-of-way, except signs identifying a business when the vehicle is being used in the normal day-to-day operation of that business. A sign may be a portable sign even if it has wheels removed, was designed without wheels, or is attached temporarily or permanently to the ground, a structure, or other sign.
23. "Private road open to public travel" has the meaning given that term under the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
24. "Projecting sign" - a sign which extends perpendicularly beyond a wall face more than 18-inches.
25. "Pylon sign" - a sign supported by a post or posts so that the sign and supports are finished to grade by encasing the posts in a material consistent with the sign and where the base width dimension is a minimum of 10% up to and including 50% of the greatest width of the sign.
26. "Sandwich sign" - a freestanding temporary sign, typically A-shaped, with two visible sides that is placed near the main entrance to a building.
27. "Sign" - any writing, pictorial presentation, number, illustration or decoration, flag, banner or other device that is used to announce, direct attention to, identify, advertise, or otherwise make anything known. The term "sign" shall not be deemed to include: the terms "building" or "landscaping", or any architectural embellishment of a building not intended to communicate information; works of art that do not convey commercial messages and that are painted on a building wall; flags that do not convey commercial messages; or any sign structure or device that is not visible from an adjacent street, property line or building on adjacent property.
28. "Temporary sign" - a sign constructed of paper, cloth, canvas, plastic sheet, cardboard, wallboard, plywood or other like materials and that appears to be intended to be displayed for a limited period of time. This includes items such as banners, pennants, beacons, sandwich or curb signs, balloons or other air or gas filled figures.
29. "Wall sign" - a single faced sign attached to or erected against an exterior wall of a building with the face in a parallel plane to the plane of the building wall.