§ 16-587. Signs not requiring a permit.

The following types of signs are exempted from the application of the regulations herein:

(1)

Signs unlighted, not exceeding three square feet in area and bearing only property numbers, mail box numbers, and the name of the owner or occupant of the premises. If more than one sign or nameplate is required, the total allowable sign area shall not exceed nine square feet.

(2)

Flags and insignia of any government and flags of historical note, religious flags, military flags, and flags of social and political causes, except when displayed in connection with commercial promotion.

(3)

Holiday decorations in season.

(4)

Legal notices and warnings, regulatory, informational or directional signs erected by any public agency, institution or utility.

(5)

Integral decorative or architectural features of buildings, including signs which denote only the building name, date of erection or street number. Such signs shall be permitted as exemptions when cut into any masonry surface or implanted with a metal plate.

(6)

Signs directing and guiding traffic and parking on private property, the total allowable sign area shall not exceed three square feet.

(7)

The act of changing advertising copy of messages on any sign designated for the use of replaceable copy.

(8)

Price signs at automobile service stations or other establishments engaged in the retail sales of gasoline. One such sign is permitted for each frontage of a public street, provided it does not exceed eight square feet in area. Any such sign shall be affixed to a permitted freestanding identification sign, to a canopy support in the vicinity of the gasoline pumps, or flat-mounted against the wall of a building.

(9)

Signs announcing the location of self-service or full-service gasoline pumps at any establishment engaged in the retail sale of gasoline. Such signs shall be located in the vicinity of the gasoline pumps and shall not exceed eight square feet in area.

(10)

Temporary signs as permitted in section 16-590.

(Ord. No. 95-008, § 15.4, 12-13-1995)