110-2-8 Prohibited Signs And Sign Devices

All signs not specifically listed as allowed are prohibited, including: 1. Moving signs. Animated, flashing, blinking, fluttering, undulating, swinging, changing, rotating or otherwise moving signs, pennants, tethered "party or weathertype" balloons, holograms, light beams, lasers or other like decorations. 2. Moving appurtenances. Moving mechanical or electrical appurtenances attached to a sign or otherwise intended to attract attention to a sign. 3. Rotating beacon lights. 4. Inflatable advertising devices or signs. (Does not refer to passenger-type hot air balloons being used for passenger flight.) 5. Flags. Flags not exempted in section 110-2-2. 6. Banners. Banners, unless specifically provided otherwise in this chapter. 7. Changeable copy signs. Electronic changeable copy signs, except as permitted in section 110-2-9(b)(13). Manual changeable copy signs except as permitted in section 110-2-10. 8. Off-site signs. All off-site, off-premises and directional signs which advertise businesses, establishments, activities, facilities, goods, products, or services not made, produced, sold or present on the premises or site where the sign is installed and maintained are prohibited, except as exempted in section 110-2-9, Other signs. Notwithstanding the foregoing, where access to a parcel is via an adjacent parcel, signs may be located on such adjacent parcel. 9. Signs on motor vehicles, except for student driver signs. Vehicle signs may be allowed on vehicles, but they may not be illuminated or parked on a long-term basis to be used as a sign for the purpose of advertising a product or directing people to a business activity as listed in section 110-2-9, Other signs. 10. Luminous tube signs. External gas filled luminous tubes, such as neon, argon or fluorescent, signs or valances, unless inside a building or in a window and not to exceed four square feet in area, except as listed in section 110-2-12, Sign materials and display standards, and may not flash or blink. 11. Other temporary signs. Any other device in the form of a sign, which is of a temporary nature, or mobile, and not permanently affixed to a building or an upright support affixed firmly to the ground, except as permitted in section 110-2-11, Temporary sign usage. 12. Roof signs. Signs mounted on a roof or atop a parapet wall. 13. Billboards. 14. Pole signs. Except one pole sign per public, private, and charter school, consisting of not more than a six-foot tall by ten-foot wide changeable reader board sign, located not less than ten feet and not more than 15 feet above the sidewalk, may be permitted. School signs shall not operate between the hours of 10:00 PM and 6:00 AM, unless providing emergency communications. 15. Public property signs. It shall be unlawful for any person to fasten or attach, paint or place any sign, handbill, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind or sort, whether political or otherwise or to cause the same to be done in or upon the curbstone, lamp post, telephone pole, electric light or power pole, hydrant, bridge or tree, or in or upon any portion of any sidewalk or street. It shall be unlawful to paste, place, paint or attach any sign defined in this chapter on any building, street or property of the county. No sign shall be erected on or project over public property, except as permitted in section 110-2-9, other signs, and section 110-2-11, temporary sign usage.