The following signs are prohibited. It shall be unlawful to erect and maintain:
(A) Any sign which is not included under the types of signs permitted in this chapter;
(B) Any portable or moveable sign, except in compliance with the provisions of this chapter;
(C) Any sign or sign structure affixed to a rooftop or known as a rooftop sign, which extends above the highest point on the roof;
(D) Any sign that projects over or into a public right-of-way;
(E) Off-premises signs as described further in this chapter, including billboards;
(F) Flashing and scrolling signs;
(G) Pennants, streamers, spinners or similar devices, balloons, inflatable devices, except as a temporary sign;
(H) Signs located within a public right-of-way or greenbelt, other than traffic or government signs or signals;
(I) Tacking, pasting or otherwise affixing of signs of an advertising or miscellaneous character, visible from a roadway, located on the walls of buildings, barns, sheds, utility poles, fences, mailbox posts, benches, trash containers, parking meters or other structures;
(J) No advertising sign shall be painted directly on an exterior wall of a building, fence or structure except to identify a residence or residential structure by means of posting the name of the occupant or structure and the street address;
(K) Business signs that advertise an activity, business, product, project or service no longer conducted on the premises upon which the sign is located within three months of the end of the business activity;
(L) Signs placed on parked vehicles or trailers where the apparent purpose is to advertise a product, candidate for election or to direct people to a business or activity located on the same or nearby property. This includes motor vehicles with a sole apparent purpose to advertise business. Motor vehicles with the primary purpose of the cartage of goods and service vehicles are exempt from this restriction;
(M) Bear or contain statements, words or pictures of an obscene, pornographic, immoral character, or which contain advertising matter that is untruthful and will offend public morals or decency;
(N) Signs which operate or employ any stereopticon or motion picture projection or media in conjunction with any advertisements, or have visible moving parts, any portion of which moves or gives the illusion of movements except as permitted in this chapter;
(O) Signs which involve revolving or rotating beams of light;
(P) Signs which emit audible sound, odor or visible matter;
(Q) Signs imitating or resembling official traffic or government signs or signals. Signs which are an imitation of or resemble an official traffic sign or signal, or which bear the words “Stop,”“Go Slow,” “Caution,” “Danger,” “Warning” or similar words; except as permitted in § 151.07(D); or
(R) Signs which, by reason of their size, location, movement, content, coloring or manner of illumination, may be confused with or constructed as a traffic-control sign, signal or device, or the light of an emergency or road equipment vehicle or which hide from view any traffic or roadway sign, signal or device.
(Ord. 2003-0005, passed 12-18-2003) Penalty, see § 10.99