This chapter, with the exception of § 154.060, shall not apply to:
(A) Official governmental notices including: those posted by governmental officers in the performance of their duties; and governmental signs to control traffic, to make other regulations known, to identify streets, or to warn of danger.
(B) Temporary decorations or displays when such are clearly incidental to and are customarily and commonly associated with any national, local, or religious holiday or celebration.
(C) Temporary or permanent signs erected by public utility companies or construction companies to warn of danger or hazardous conditions, including signs indicating the presence of underground cables, gas lines, and similar devices.
(D) Signs displayed on trucks, buses, trailers, or other vehicles which are being operated or stored in compliance with the Zoning Ordinance of the Village and in the normal course of business, such as signs indicating the name of the owner or business which are located on moving vans, delivery trucks, retail trucks and trailers and the like, provided that the primary purpose of such vehicles is not for the display of signs and provided that they are parked or stored indoors in areas appropriate to their use and in compliance with other applicable ordinances of the Village. This shall not be construed to permit the parking of a vehicle for display purposes to which signs are attached or for any period of time longer than that necessary for the loading or unloading of such truck, bus, or other vehicle.
(E) Temporary real estate signs, which advertise the sale, rental, lease, or management of the premises upon which said signs are located, provided that the following conditions are met:
(1) Size limitations.
(a) Such signs located in Residential Districts shall not exceed six square feet in area.
(b) Such signs located in Commercial Districts shall not exceed 12 square feet in area.
(c) Such signs located in Industrial Districts shall not exceed 32 square feet in area.
(2) Time and number limitation. Such signs shall be removed as soon as the premises are leased, hired, or sold, provided further that at any given time not more than one sign of the above character shall be permitted upon any premises.
(F) Temporary open house signs which direct traffic to real estate upon which there is located any dwelling for sale by any person, firm, corporation, or joint owners being advertised for sale, rental, lease, or management, provided that the following conditions are met:
(1) At any given time, for any given tract of real estate, not more than two open house signs shall be permitted, each of which shall not exceed six square feet in gross surface area.
(2) Any such open house sign may be placed on the premises of the aforementioned real estate, and the other may be placed on the parkway of the public right-of-way of the closest major intersection to the aforementioned real estate, provided that the owner of the real property abutting the proposed parkway location does not disapprove of the parkway location upon prior notice to such abutting owner;
(3) Such signs shall only be allowed on Saturdays and Sundays and only between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.;
(4) Each open house sign must have located thereon identification denoting the person or persons who are responsible for the placement and removal of the sign; and
(5) At any given parkway location, not more than one such open house sign may be placed by the same business entity.
(G) Change of copy or of part of a sign which has not been abandoned or unused, which change may be required in the course of normal maintenance, provided, however, that such sign has a permit and a certificate of approval and that such change does not deviate from the conditions of the permit and certificate of approval.
(H) Occupational signs denoting only the name and profession or trade of an occupant in a commercial building, public institutional building, or dwelling house which does not exceed two square feet in area.
(I) Political signs shall be permitted as a matter of right and without permit on private property in the residential districts of the Village only as those districts are set forth in the Zoning Ordinance, provided that the location of such political signs shall be limited to the buildable area of any lot and the total area of all such signs upon any given lot does not exceed 16 square feet.
(J) Bulletin boards maintained by public, charitable, or religious institutions when they are located on the premises of said institutions, provided that they have an area of not over 16 square feet per side.
(K) Signs denoting the architect, engineer, or contractor, placed upon work under construction and not exceeding 16 square feet in area, provided that the following conditions are met:
(1) Such signs located in Residential Districts shall not exceed six square feet in area.
(2) Such signs located in Commercial Districts shall not exceed 12 square feet in area.
(3) Such signs located in Industrial Districts shall not exceed 32 square feet in area.
(L) Signs or tablets, with the names of buildings and the date of erection, when cut into any masonry surfaces or when constructed of bronze or other nonferrous materials and attached to the building.
(M) Traffic or other Village signs, legal notices, railroad crossing signs, danger and such temporary emergency or non-advertising signs as may be approved by the President and Board of Trustees.
(N) Temporary advertising signs having a single or double face, each of which shall not be erected for longer than twelve (12) months; and provided further that:
(1) Only one (1) such on-premises advertising sign shall be allowed per development, and each face thereof shall not exceed a maximum of fifty (50) square feet (50 s.f.); and
(2) Only one (1) such off-premises advertising sign shall be allowed per development, and each face thereof shall not exceed a maximum of forty (40) square feet (40 s.f.).
(O) Unilluminated real estate signs advertising the sale of the premises in the dimensions located below, but they shall be subject to subsection § 154.125(G) of this chapter:
(1) Such signs located in Residential Districts shall not exceed six square feet in area.
(2) Such signs located in Commercial Districts shall not exceed 12 square feet in area.
(3) Such signs located in Industrial Districts shall not exceed 32 square feet in area.
(P) Unilluminated signs advertising the sale of the owner's private personal property on the owner's property or premises and not exceeding 12 square feet in area, provided that they comply with and otherwise comport with the exemption requirements contained in § 154.125(G) of this chapter.
(Q) Window signs which are temporary signs in commercial districts not exceeding 50% percent window coverage in area per window and which announce or advertise sales of goods and/or other related functions shall not be subject to the conditions of this Chapter.
(Ord. 95-1934, passed 6-13-95; Am. Ord. 96-2007, passed 6-11-96; Am. Ord. 07-2642, passed 7-24-07) Penalty, see § 10.99