§ 17.08.050. Prohibited signs.

The following signs are prohibited:

A.

Signs on any vehicle or trailer that is parked on public or private property and visible from a public right-of-way. This provision is not to be construed as prohibiting the identification of a firm or its principal products on a vehicle operating during the normal course of business. This does not include automobile for sale signs or signs attached to franchised buses or taxis;

B.

Signs which, by reason of their size, location, movement, content, coloring or manner of illumination, may be confused with or construed as a traffic control sign, signal or device, or the light of any emergency (police, fire or ambulance) or a utility equipment vehicle, or which obstruct the visibility of any traffic or street sign or signal device. Signs which purport to be, or are in an imitation of, or resemble an official traffic sign or signal, or which bear the words "stop," "caution," "danger," "warning," or similar words;

C.

Signs attached to utility, street light, and traffic-control standard poles;

D.

Swinging projecting signs;

E.

Signs in a dilapidated (having peeling paint, major cracks or holes, and/or loose or dangling materials) or hazardous condition;

F.

Abandoned signs;

G.

Signs on doors, windows, or fire escapes that restrict free ingress or egress;

H.

All off-premises signs are prohibited and no permit shall be granted for the construction of any off-premises signs on or after the effective date of this subsection. Provided, however, that this provision shall not apply to multiple-building complex and multiple-tenant building signs. Provided further that an off-premises sign that meets the conditions to establish a permitted off-premises sign under Section 17.08.125 is not considered a prohibited sign.

I.

Any other sign not meeting the provisions of this chapter.

(Ord. 2274 § 1 (part), 2000)

(Ord. No. 2695, § 2, 5-24-10; Ord. No. 2764 , § 2, 2-13-12)