The following sign types are not permitted:
A. Any sign not specifically identified in this chapter as permitted shall be prohibited.
B. No person, except a public officer or employee in performance of a public duty or a contractor for a public agency, shall place or fasten any type of sign or advertising on public property or on any public structure (including, but not limited to, pavement, sidewalk, parking place, step, curbstone, lamppost, pole, signpost, hydrant, bridge, wall or tree) except as may be required by ordinance or law or as authorized in the downtown business district in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
C. The following types of signs are prohibited:
1. Any sign, any portion of which (including its supports) may obstruct any fire escape, stairway or standpipe.
2. A sign that may interfere with human exit through any window or any room located above the first floor of any building.
3. A sign where the sign or its supports may obstruct any exterior door or required exit of any building.
4. A sign that may obstruct any legally required light and ventilation.
5. A sign that, as a result of the intensity, direction or color of its lighting or illumination, may interfere with the proper operation of, or cause confusion to the operator of, a motor vehicle on the public streets.
6. Billboard signs, reader boards, bench signs, or wind signs or devices.
7. Combination signs.
8. A sign with outline tubing or neon used on the sign support structures or running from the sign across the building and thereby invalidating the sign area limitations. Note: The use of neon on a building is permitted, as provided in this chapter.
9. Obsolete signs unless designated as historic.
10. Pennants, streamers, or other similar signs including those which are suspended from ropes, strings, or similar devices, except as provided in section 15.36.390, "Automobile And Watercraft Dealership Signs", of this chapter.
11. Portable signs not permanently attached to the ground or a building, except for banner signs which are regulated by this chapter and portable and projecting signs as permitted within the downtown business district in accordance with this chapter, and portable signs regulated by chapter 12.55 of this code.
12. Projecting signs, except as permitted in section 15.36.240 of this chapter.
13. Pole signs, except as freeway signs and automobile dealership signs in accordance with this chapter.
14. Balloons of any shape or size, except as permitted in section 15.36.390 of this chapter. (Ord. 2552 § 1, 2004)