A. Prohibited Signs: Any sign not specifically listed as permitted by this title is prohibited, including, but not limited to, the following:
1. Billboards are prohibited in the town of Parker.
2. Signs mounted, attached, or painted on trailers, boats, or motor vehicles primarily or consistently parked, stored, or displayed in a manner intended to attract the attention of the public for advertising purposes. This does not prohibit the identification of a firm or its principal products on a vehicle operating during the normal course of business or being taken home.
3. Signs attached to any utility pole or structure, streetlight, traffic signal, tree, fence, fire hydrant, park bench or other location on public property, unless otherwise specifically addressed in this chapter.
4. The use of pennants, banners, balloons, streamers, and similar displays, except as permitted in section 10-15-6 of this chapter.
5. Off site signs, unless otherwise permitted by this chapter.
6. Signs that are animated, or rotate (except barber poles), or computer generated changing signs, or have intermittent or flashing illumination, or emit audible sound or visible matter, or LED signs (except time and temperature units).
7. Pole mounted signs.
8. Signs displayed in a manner or locations that prevent free ingress and egress from a door, window or other exit.
9. Signs displayed in a location in such a manner as to obstruct or interfere with an official traffic sign, signal or device, or signs that obstruct or interfere with the driver's view of approaching, merging or intersecting traffic and signs within the road medians or signs that are otherwise prohibited by this title.
10. The use of reader panel signs, except as permitted in subsections 10-15-5A and D of this chapter.
11. Fixed balloons, as defined in section 10-15-3 of this chapter, used for promotional and advertisement purposes.
12. Signage on wireless communication facilities unless otherwise required by the town of Parker.
B. Unsafe Signs:
1. If the building official, or his designee, determines any sign or sign structure to be in an unsafe condition, he shall immediately notify, in writing, the owner of such sign who shall correct such condition within forty eight (48) hours.
2. If the correction has not been made within forty eight (48) hours, the building official, or his/her designee, may have the sign removed if it creates a danger to the public safety or have any necessary repairs or maintenance performed at the expense of the sign owner or owner or lessee of the property upon which the sign is located.
C. Illegal Signs:
1. The zoning administrator, or other designated town official, shall remove all illegal signs or legal signs placed in prohibited locations. Should an entity continue to place a sign(s) without a permit(s), a citation may be issued. (Ord. 03-2005, 9-6-2005)