Prohibited signs are as follows:
(A) Any sign designed for emitting sound;
(B) Any sign mounted or attached to a vehicle parked for the purpose of calling attention to or advertising a special business establishment;
(C) Any sign or sign structure which has become a public nuisance due to inadequate maintenance, dilapidation or abandonment;
(D) Any sign which obstructs in any manner the ingress to, or egress from, a door, window, fire escape or other access way required by building codes adopted by the City of Tulare;
(E) Any sign unlawfully installed, erected, or maintained;
(F) Any sign now or hereafter existing which no longer advertises a bona fide business conducted or a product sold as prescribed in this chapter;
(G) Any sign which encroaches into any city right-of-way and/or easement, except an under canopy sign or projecting sign;
(H) Any sign that flashes, blinks, moves, changes color, appears to change color, changes intensity or contains any part of attachment which does the same except that standard barber poles, time and temperature signs and approved bulletin board signs shall be permitted in commercial and industrial zones if otherwise in compliance with this chapter;
(I) Any sign that is inconsistent with the traffic safety sight area, unless the sign is less than two feet in height or there is a clear area of eight feet from the bottom of the sign and the adjacent sidewalk grade;
(J) Any sign not expressly permitted;
(K) Any sign located so that it interferes with visibility at an intersection, public right-of-way, driveway or other ingress/egress;
(L) Any sign located or displayed on or over public property except as expressly permitted in this chapter unless approved by the Council;
(M) Any sign attached to a tree;
(N) Any sign erected or maintained which has less horizontal or vertical clearance from communication lines and energized electrical power lines than that prescribed by the state, or rules and regulations duly promulgated by agencies thereof;
(O) Any sign serving as a billboard;
(P) Any sign which, in the opinion of the Director, is in conflict with the spirit or intent of this chapter;
(Q) Any sign adversely affecting traffic control or safety; and
(R) In addition to the prohibitions and limitations against outdoor billboard advertising of tobacco products found in Cal. Business and Professions Code § 22961(a), it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership or other organization to advertise or cause to be advertised any tobacco products on any outdoor billboard located within 1,000 feet of any house of worship within the City of Tulare. This section shall not apply to outdoor billboards adjacent to, and designed to be viewed primarily by persons traveling on a freeway. The distance specified in this section shall be measured in a straight line, without regard to intervening structures, from the nearest point of the outdoor billboard to the nearest property lien of a house of worship. Nothing contained in this section shall be interpreted or enforced in such a manner as to constitute a compensable limitation on the use of any outdoor billboard pursuant to Cal. Business and Professions Code § 5412.
(1995 Code, § 10.188.140) (Ord. 00-1854, passed - -2000)