It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, display, or maintain a sign or advertising structure as described below.
A. Moving or flashing signs or advertising structures, including any signs that are moved by either human or mechanical means. The prohibited flashing signs include any signs with intermittent electrical pulsations. Exceptions shall include time and temperature signs and sign walkers.
B. Signs that are hazardous to traffic, imitate official government signs (i.e., Stop, Danger, Caution, etc.), or obstruct visibility creating a hazard.
C. Windblown signs, such as posters, pennants, streamers, balloons, air puppets propelled by forced air, or other inflated objects except as provided for in Section 151.10.004, Portable Signs. Excluded from this definition is a flag of any government or governmental agency.
D. Portable signs except as permitted in Section 151.10.004, Portable Signs.
E. All signs with more than 25-watt lamps or bulbs exposed to direct view, any reflective or power spot bulbs, strings of light bulbs, or spotlights with the following exceptions.
1. Time-and-temperature signs can use 33-watt bulbs.
2. Holiday decorations are excluded.
F. Electronic Message Centers, unless they meet the criteria in Section 151.10.006:
G. Reader Boards.
H. Off-premise signs, including billboards, except as provided in Section 151.10.004, Portable Signs.
I. Signs or portion thereof which:
1. Obstruct a fire exit, stairway, or standpipe;
2. Interfere with an exit to any window or any room located above the first floor of any building;
3. Obstruct any door or required exit from any building;
4. Obstruct or redirect any required light or ventilation.
J. Signs erected in a residential zoning district with information other than allowed under Section 151.10.004, Portable Signs.
K. Sandwich board signs or A-frame signs, except as permitted in Section 151.10.004, Portable Signs.
L. Roof signs as defined in Section 151.02.004, Definitions.
M. Signs less than 6 feet horizontally or 12 feet vertically away from overhead electrical conductors energized with 440 volts or more. (Overhead electrical conductors, either bare or insulated, installed above the ground, except those enclosed in rigid iron conduit or other material of equal strength.)
N. Signs on Parked Vehicles. Signs or advertising on parked vehicles or trailers are prohibited unless the vehicles or trailers are primarily used in conducting business and the signs advertise or identify the business and the products or services offered on the premises. This paragraph shall not apply to signs affixed to vehicles or trailers used as public carriers, businesses, taxis, or vehicles when operating during the normal course of business.
O. Obscene signs.
(Ord. 743, passed 4-10-86; Am. Ord. 828, passed 12-13-88; Am. Ord. 834, passed 3-9- 88; Am. Ord. 861, passed 6-28-90; Am. Ord. 982, passed 5-25-95; Am. Ord. 988, passed 9-28-95; Am. Ord. 1148, passed 9-26-02; Am. Ord. 2005-021, passed 11-22-05; Am. Ord. 2007-019, passed 12-13-07; Am. Ord. 2008-020, passed 12-11-08; Am. Ord. 2018- 004, passed 3-22-18)