18.08.500: SIGN:
"Sign" means and includes all outdoor advertising on any card, cloth, paper, plastic, metal, painted glass, wooden or stone materials, and any and all devices, structural or otherwise, lighted or unlighted, painted or not painted, attached to, made a part of or placed in the window of, in the front, rear, sides or top of any structure on any land, or any tree, wall, bush, rock, post, fence, building or structure, and visible from any public or private street, way, thoroughfare, alley or walk, which device announces or directs attention to the name or nature of a business, occupant of a structure, building or land, or the nature or type of goods, services or products produced, sold, stored, furnished or available at that location or at any other location, including signs specifically for the sale of real property.
The term "placed", as used in this section, means and includes erected, constructed, posted, painted, printed, tacked, glued, stuck, carved, or otherwise fastened, fixed or made visible in any manner whatsoever. (Ord. 1000 § 6.20, 1955)