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149 Signs 1185.06 (f) Relation to Traffic Devices. Signs shall not be erected so as to obstruct sight lines along any public way, traffic control lights, street name signs at intersections or street sight lines. Signs visible from the sight lines along a street shall not contain an.arrow or words such as "stop", "go", "slow", etc. , and the movement, content, coloring or manner of illumination shall not resemble highway traffic signs or interfere with the sign lines of a traffic signal. (g) Other Safety Requirements. No sign shall be erected or placed so that any part thereof shall be within a fifteen foot distance of public utility electric conductors, carrying not more than 600 volts, and for conductors carrying more than 600 volts, not within a distance of thirty feet of such conductors, except that this provision shall not apply to electric conductors which serve the sign. (Ord. 88-14. Passed 5-16-88.) 1185.06 ILLUMINATION. (a) Light sources to illuminate signs shall be shielded from all adjacent residential buildings and streets and shall not be of such brightness so as to cause glare hazardous to pedestrians or motorists or as to cause reasonable objection from adjacent residential districts, and shall be concentrated on the. area of the sign. (b) Animated, blinking, flashing, fluttering, moving or outlined illumination shall not be permitted in any district except that a permit may be granted for movement showing the .date, the time and the temperature exclusively. Beacon lights and search lights are prohibited. No sign shall be constructed and/or operated to create an appearance of illusion of writing. (c) No exposed reflective type bulbs, neon tube illumination bent to form letters or symbols or used other than to blacklight silhouetted letters or for the internal illumination of plastic faced signs or letters, or strobe lights or incandescent lamps which exceed fifteen watts shall be used on the exterior surface of any sign so as to expose the face of the bulb, light or lamp to any public street or adjacent property. No illuminated signs shall be permitted in the window or on the door of any premises. Illuminated signs, as the same are permitted by this section, are limited to the exterior of the building only. Neon tubing shall not be visible to the eye and shall not be closer than one inch to the plastic face or letter of any sign. (d) The methods of illumination permitted are colored light, illuminated surface colors, internal illumination (a light source concealed or contained within the sign, and which becomes visible in darkness through a translucent surface) and indirect illumination (a light source not seen directly), provided that within residential areas or within 500 feet thereof only white shall be permitted. (e) Display signs illuminated by electricity, or equipped in any way with electric devices or appliances, shall conform in wfxing and appliances to the provisions of the National Electrical Code and there shall be a lock-type switch. 1988 Replacetxient