The following signs and advertising devices are hereby declared to be unlawful:
(A) Animated signs;
(B) Any sign erected in a location prohibited by this subchapter;
(C) Any sign erected in a public easement or right-of-way;
(D) Any sign erected so as to prevent free ingress to or egress from any door or window, or any other exit-way required by the Building or Fire Codes of the town;
(E) Any sign attached to any public utility pole, tree, fire hydrant, curb, sidewalk, or other surface located on public property;
(F) Any sign erected in any location where, by reason of its location, will obstruct the view of any authorized traffic sign, signal, or other traffic-control device; nor may any sign, by reason of its shape, position, or color interfere with or be confused with any authorized traffic signal sign or device. Further, no sign shall be erected in a location where it will obstruct vision of the public right-of-way to a vehicle operator during ingress to, egress from, or while traveling on the public right-of-way;
(G) Any on-premises sign advertising an article or product not manufactured, assembled, processed, repaired or sold, or a service not rendered upon the premises upon which the sign is located, and not located or constructed such as to qualify as a standard outdoor advertising structure or billboard;
(H) Any sign or advertising device such as banners and pennants affixed on poles, wires, ropes or streamers, wind-operated devices, fluttering signs, pinwheels, streamers, banners, street banners, and “A” frames or other portable signs of like nature, and other similar contraptions or techniques except that these devices may be used for a period of 30 days in any 12-month period by permit from the Department and must be kept in a safe and orderly fashion;
(I) Vehicle signs, except for standard advertising or identification markings that are painted on or permanently attached to the side of a business or commercial vehicle. Such business or commercial vehicles shall not be parked in any required parking space, nor in any excess parking space adjacent to a street right-of-way;
(J) Off-site or off-premises signs except as provided in this section;
(K) Flashing signs, including electronic message centers; however, not including digital time and temperature signs, involving only that information and no further or additional information of an advertising nature. Such time/temperature signs shall be constant or steady in nature, and shall not grow, melt, x-ray, up or down scroll, write on, travel, inverse, roll, twinkle, snow, or present pictorials or other animation;
(L) Portable signs, signs not permanently affixed to the ground; and
(M) Signs which contain characters or cartoons, or contain statements, words, or pictures of any obscene, indecent, prurient, or immoral character.
(Ord. 01-04-01, passed 4-10-2001) Penalty, see § 154.999