(A) Prohibited Signs in all Zoning Districts
(1) Any private or unofficial sign or sign structure that is erected, constructed, or maintained in a public or private street right-of-way, except otherwise provided in this Ordinance.
(2) Any sign that is located within or obstructs a sight triangle at a street or driveway intersection.
(3) Any sign that is located in any manner or place so as to constitute a hazard to traffic.
(4) Any moving sign, windblown sign, or device to attract attention, whether or not any such device carries a written message, all or part of which is set in motion by wind, mechanical, electrical, or any other means except for barber pole signs used in connection with an active barber shop. This shall include, but not be limited to, propellers, balloons, or discs.
(5) Any flashing sign or device displaying flashing or intermittent lights or lights of changing degrees of intensity. Any searchlight or similar device.
(6) Any illuminated tubing or strings of lights outlining property lines, open sales areas, rooflines, doors, windows, or the edges of walls, except for perimeter down-lighting which is shielded to illuminate open sales areas but no land outside those areas.
(7) Any sign that obstructs or substantially interferes with passage through any window, door, fire escape, stairway, ladder, or opening intended to provide light, air, ingress, or egress to any building.
(8) Portable signs, including any sign painted or displayed on vehicles or trailers if the vehicle or trailer is parked in a location for the primary purpose of displaying the sign, except for signs that are painted on, or attached to commercial vehicles which are not parked for the primary purpose of displaying the sign (excludes A-Frame, wallboard, and pedestal signs located within the Historic Preservation District (Section 9.7.1.4(D)).
(9) Any sign that copies or imitates an official sign, or that purports to have official status. Any sign that is used to attract attention to an object, person, product, institution, organization, business, service, event, or location that is not located on the premises upon which the sign is located, except those specifically permitted by Section 9.7.1.7 to be located off-premises. This shall not include traffic, directional or regulatory signs or notices erected by a federal, state, county, or municipal government agency. This provision shall not apply to Commercial Developments located within the Pinehurst South Overlay District in which they may have up to three (3) off premise signs if the location that the signs are to be placed have common ownership interest with the development being signed and said signs are located within four hundred (400) feet of the development being signed;
(10) Any sign erected and constructed wholly on, over, or as a part of the roof of a building.
(11) Wall or window signs in all residential zoning districts, except for house numbers, historical names, and those signs permitted by Section 9.7.1.5.
(13) No lighting shall be erected or utilized for temporary signs, with the exception of signs described in Section 9.7.1.7(F) and (E).
(14) Signs attached to or painted on utility poles, telephone poles, trees, parking meters, bridges and overpasses, rocks, other signs, benches and refuse containers, etc. are prohibited unless specifically allowed elsewhere in this chapter.
(15) Signs that advertise an activity or business no longer conducted on the property on which the sign is located are prohibited.
(16) Sign structures on which no sign is erected are prohibited.
(17) Abandoned signs or sign structures must be removed within sixty (60) days of becoming an abandoned sign or sign structure.
(18) Signs containing or consisting of pennants, ribbons, streamers, balloons, or spinners are prohibited.