(A) Classification.
BILLBOARD. An advertising sign used as an outdoor display for the purpose of directing attention to a business, commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, sold, manufactured, or offered at a location other than the location of said sign.
PRINCIPAL USE. A sign used to identify or advertise a residence, business, service, or entertainment located at the same location as the sign.
(B) Definition according to structural type.
GROUND SIGN. A sign resting upon or attached directly to the ground by means of one or more upright pillars, braces or posts placed upon or in the ground and not attached to any part of a building. This definition includes mobile ground signs.
MARQUEE SIGN. A sign affixed to the top of any hood or canopy over the entrance to a store, building or place of public assembly.
PROJECTING SIGN. A sign projecting out from, and attached to, the exterior wall of a building and forming an angle of 30 degrees or more with said wall.
ROOF SIGN. A sign erected, constructed, or maintained upon the roof of any building.
SUSPENDED SIGN. A sign which is suspended from the underside of a horizontal plane surface, such as a canopy or marquee, and is supported by such plane.
WALL SIGN. A sign affixed to the surface of, and whose plane is parallel to the plane of, the exterior wall of a building, or which forms an angle of less than 30 degrees with said wall.
(Ord. passed 7-1-1980; Res. R-2021-03, passed 6-24-2021)