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<br />Ordinance No. 2004-174
<br />different color than the present color, excluding changes in changeable copy on
<br />signs.
<br />(s) "Other Advertising Structure" shall mean any marquee, canopy, awning,
<br />campanile, gazebo, kiosk or street clock serving to image, identify or promote a
<br />commercial enterprise.
<br />(t) "Permittee" shall mean a person receiving an erection permit pursuant to the
<br />provisions of this chapter.
<br />(u) "Person" shall be mean any individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust,
<br />partnership, limited liability company, or other association.
<br />(v) "Erect" shall mean to build, construct, alter, relocate, modify, attach, hang, place,
<br />suspend, or affix, and shall also include the painting of signs.
<br />(Ord. 2001-109. Passed 10-16-01.)
<br />be amended, and, as amended, shall read in its entirety as follows:
<br />"1163.02 DEFINITIONS.
<br />As used in this chapter unless the context otherwise indicates:
<br />(a) "Sign" shall mean any writing, pictorial representation, illustration, emblem,
<br />symbol, design, or other figure of similar character that is a structure or a part
<br />thereof, or is attached to or in any manner represented on a building, vehicle, or
<br />other structure, and is visible from any public right-of-way or any other lot or
<br />parcel, and is used for purposes of advertisement, announcement, declaration,
<br />demonstration, identification or expression.
<br />(b) "Illuminated Sign" shall mean any sign which has characters, letters, figures,
<br />designs, or outlines illuminated externally or internally by any light source other
<br />than non-reflected natural daylight.
<br />(c) "Ground Sign" shall mean any sign, excluding a billboard, supported by uprights,
<br />braces, or base or stem of any material, placed upon the ground and not attached
<br />to any building.
<br />(d) "Wall Sign" shall mean any sign applied or attached to, or painted onto, any
<br />exterior wall surface of any building ar structure.
<br />(e) "Canopy Sign" shall mean any sign attached to the soffit or fascia of a canopy,
<br />marquee, awning, covered entrance, covered walkway, arbor, pergola or other
<br />similar structure.
<br />(g) "Billboard" shall mean any sign advertising, identifying or directing attentiori to
<br />any product, service, entertainment or commercial activity not offered upon 1:he lot
<br />on which the sign is located.
<br />(g) "Pole Sign" shall mean any sign, other than a flag as herein defined, that is
<br />supported by a pole, poles, columns or other base or structure, and designed
<br />either:
<br />(1) To allow pedestrian or vehicular clearance beneath any of the sign's
<br />message area, or
<br />(2) To allow the sign's message area to overhang the pole, poles, columns or
<br />other base or structure in total by more than twenty percent (20%) of the
<br />sign message area's breadth.
<br />(h) "Flag" shall mean any sign of cloth or similar material, anchored along one side,
<br />displayed from a single pole, either freestanding or attached to a building.
<br />(i) "Window Sign" shall mean any sign in view of the general public appeanng on a
<br />window surface or within up to twenty-four (24) inches of the window surface.
<br />(j) "Vehicular Sign" shall mean any sign attached or applied to a vehicle of any type
<br />and used primarily to identify, advertise or promote, excluding any signs on
<br />vehicles normally and regularly used and operated in the course of busmess.
<br />(k) "Temporary Sign" shall mean any sign, banner, flag, pennant, or other display e€
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