For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:
ADVERTISING STRUCTURE: All structures and all parts thereof which are erected or used for advertising purposes upon which any poster, bill, bulletin, printing, painting, device or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever is placed, posted, tacked, nailed, pasted, painted or otherwise fastened or affixed. This definition shall not be held to include any board, sign or surface used exclusively to display official notices issued by any court or public office or posted by any public officer in performance of a public duty or a private person in giving a legal notice.
AREA OF SIGN: The area of the largest rectangle or triangle that is required to enclose the sign. In the case of an irregularly shaped sign, or a sign made of individual cutout letters, the area shall be the sum of the areas of the rectangles or triangles necessary to enclose each letter or part of the sign. The area of V-type signs shall be the total area of all faces. The area of any two-faced sign shall be the area of one side or face.
BILLBOARD: An advertising structure which advertises a use not conducted on the same premises or a product not produced or fabricated on the same premises.
BUILDING LINE: That line established by this title, or by increased variance thereof, beyond which no part of the main building or structure may be erected or constructed, or a further setback from lot lines agreed to as building line by adjoining property owners within any particular block frontage.
ELECTRIC SIGN: Any advertising device which has electric wiring in, on or attached to such structure and is served or energized with electric current for the purpose of illumination or for any other purpose.
GROUND SIGN: A detached sign entirely within the property lines erected upon or supported by the ground.
IDENTIFICATION OR ANNOUNCEMENT SIGN: Any announcement sign, professional sign or nameplate giving the name and a permitted occupation or use located on the premises.
MURAL: A non-advertising artistic image affixed, painted, or drawn directly on the exterior of a building, or on the inside of any window visible from the outside of a building.
PROJECTING SIGN: Any sign attached to a building or other structure and extending in whole or in part more than twelve inches (12") beyond the building line.
REAL ESTATE SIGN: A sign placed upon a property advertising that particular property for sale or for rent or for lease.
SIDEWALK: That public property which exists between the property line and the established street curb.
SIGN: Any advertising structure, display board, screen structure, circus poster, poster, bill, bulletin, printing, painting, device, object or part thereof used to announce, identify, declare, demonstrate, display or otherwise advertise and attract the attention of the public by words, letters, figures, designs, fixtures, colors or illumination publicly displayed out of doors.
WALL SIGN: A sign attached to, painted or erected against a wall of a building or structure with the exposed face of the sign in a plane approximately parallel to the plane of such wall.
WINDOW SIGN: A sign painted on or attached to either the inside or outside of a window. (Ord. 2018-02, 9-11-2018)