(A) Commercial Billboard Signs: A commercial billboard sign is a large sign, generally supported by a metal or wood frame and consisting of two (2) parallel sign faces oriented in opposite directions, used for the display of posters, printed, painted, or electronic advertisements that generally direct attention to goods, merchandise, entertainment, or services conducted, sold, or offered at a location other than the premises on which the sign is located.
(B) Obscene Signs: An obscene sign is a sign that contains offensive language, is hate based, is discriminatory or on which the dominant theme of material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex, or is patently offensive because it affronts community standards relating to the description or representation of sexual matters, and is utterly without redeeming social value.
(C) Portable Signs: Signs designed or intended to be relocated from time to time, whether or not it is permanently attached to a building or structure, or is located on the ground, are prohibited. Portable signs include signs on wheels or on portable or mobile structures, such as, among other things, trailers, skids, tent signs, and airborne signs. This prohibition does not include vehicle, sandwich board, and other similar sign types specifically regulated herein.
(D) Merchandise Displays: No person shall suspend from any building, or pole, structure, sidewalk, parkway, driveway, parking area, or fuel pump island any goods, wares, merchandise or other advertising object or structure for the purpose of advertising such items, other than a sign as defined, regulated and prescribed by this chapter. This prohibition does not apply to the outside display or storage of merchandise as allowed in this title.
(E) Other Signs:
1. Signs which move and/or are animated by means of flashing, traveling or blinking lights, or other means not providing constant illumination, unless specifically allowed within this chapter;
2. Appendages to primary signs which have flashing, blinking, or traveling lights;
3. Any sign which emits audible sound, odor, or visible matter;
4. Any sign located on a property where the contents of that sign do not pertain to a person, activity, idea, business, or product being sold, promoted, or expressed on the premises where the sign is located, unless specifically allowed within this chapter;
5. Any sign not referenced within, or governed by this chapter;
6. Any sign erected without a permit, either prior to or after the adoption of this chapter, if a permit was required;
7. Any sign erected in or over public right of way or other public property, unless the same is erected by the city, county, state or other authorized governmental agency, or with the permission of the city, for public purposes, unless allowed within this chapter; and
8. Any lighted sign erected or displayed within one hundred fifty feet (150') of a residentially zoned property, or designated as residential on the future land use plan, unless the lighting is shielded from view of the residential property and indirect light does not exceed one-half (1/2) lumen measured from any property line of the residential property, unless allowed within this chapter. (Ord. 2957, 12-8-2008)