1105.03 EXEMPT SIGNS.

   While conforming to all the requirements contained in this Sign Code, the following signs shall be exempt from all permit requirements.

   (a)   Artistic murals and displays. Any displays constituting signs that are officially designated by the Design Review Committee as works of art, such as statuary, murals, or sculpture.

   (b)   Construction signs not exceeding thirty two (32) square feet in size. Such signs shall be removed prior to issuance of a Certificate of Occupancy. Also ground or sidewalk markings made for utility or construction purposes.

   (c)   Flags. Which are limited to no more that two (2) per parcel.

   (d)   Displays that are not signs, as defined herein, other than festoons, as defined herein.

   (e)   A clock, thermometer, or any measuring instrument that is not in any other respect a sign.

   (f)   Signs on motor vehicles, boats, aircraft, or other moving vehicles, whether moving or stationary, except vehicle signs, as defined herein.

   (g)   Signs of less than 1 square foot each in sign area.

   (h)   Labeling placed by a manufacturer or distributor on merchandise or its packaging displayed in outdoor sales displays, or signs displayed by retailers totaling 10 square feet or less per display or 10 square feet or less per street frontage occupied by the display.

   (i)   Government/Utility Signs that relate to public safety and welfare.

   (j)   Bulletin boards and bulletin board signs.

   (k)   Political Yard Signs. The regulations dealing with political yard signs are found in Section 541 of the Codified Ordinances of the City of Youngstown.

   (l)   Picket signs carried by striking workers, political protestors, or other aggrieved parties.

   (m)   Cornerstone inscriptions or other signs that are part of masonry facades of buildings.

   (n)   Landmark signs, as defined by the state or local historical societies or the Design Review Committee of the City of Youngstown.

   (o)   Displays in the interior of roofless buildings intended to be seen only from the inside, such as athletic scoreboards or advertising signs along interior walls of an open stadium. Scoreboard panels designed to be viewed from outside the stadium are not exempt.

   (p)   Seasonal displays relating to a holiday period, seasonal festival, or the like that do not constitute a sign, as defined herein.

   (q)   Event signs, as defined herein, for temporary uses.

   Displays that are, in the judgment of the Building Inspector, only incidental displays exempted herein and are primarily non-exempt signs shall be subject to the provisions of this Chapter. A sign, for example, that also contains a time and temperature display does not there-by become exempt under Subsection (e).

(Ord. 09-165. Passed 6-24-09.)