(A) With the exceptions set forth hereinafter no signs, including, but not limited to, permanent yard signs, shall be erected on public property or within any public right-of-way except by governmental authorities in the discharge of a governmental function or pursuant to a license to occupy the right-of-way granted in accordance with R.C. § 131.03. Any sign so located shall be deemed a public nuisance and subject to immediate removal.
(B) No signs shall be erected by nailing, fastening or affixing the sign in any manner to any tree, rock, post, curb, utility pole, natural feature, official street sign or marker, traffic-control sign or device or other structure except as may be set forth herein.
(C) The erection of memorial crosses, signs or statues to commemorate the place of a traffic accident or other death shall be prohibited.
(D) No sign shall be placed or erected on either public or private property without the permission of the owner.
(E) Commercial signs, including sign structures, shall be deemed abandoned if the business, service or commercial site to which it relates has been discontinued/closed for 90 days.
(F) Dilapidated and/or neglected and/or abandoned signs, including the structure and supports for said signs, shall not be permitted.
(G) No ground sign shall be erected within ten feet of any public right-of-way or within 150 feet of any other ground sign located adjacent to the same side of the same public right-of-way.
(H) No sign shall be erected in any place that interferes with the ventilation system of a building or impedes access to any fire hydrant or standpipe, fire extinguisher or fire alarm or to any door, window, fire escape or other means of egress from a building.
(I) No sign exhibiting animated graphic illustrations, flashing or rotating lights or mirrors, banners, pennants, ribbons, streamers, spinners or similar devices that move or change appearance shall be erected in any place that is visible from a public right-of-way or from publicly or privately owned lands customarily open to vehicular traffic. This division (I) does not prohibit the erection of public service devices that display the date, time, temperature or news information in a manner that does not imitate or distract attention from traffic-control devices.
(J) No illuminated sign shall be erected in any place that results in objectionable brightness or glare in any residential premises or on any public right-of-way.
(K) Abandoned signs, obscene signs, portable signs, roof signs and vehicular signs are hereby declared to be a public nuisance and are prohibited.
(Ord. 1362-07, passed 6-4-2007) Penalty, see § 152.99