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10.71(13) ;- 10.71(39) parking, or location of any place or area on the (28) Mobile or portable sign shall mean a-sign - same premise. mounted on a frame or chassis designed to be (14) Directory sign shall mean an off-premise easily relocated and not permanently affixed to the . advertising sign with a copy area of 96 square feet ground or other structure. or less. (29) Off-premise advertising sign shall mean a (15) Double decked sign shall mean billboards or sign which directs attention to a business, . directory signs which are mounted one above the commodity, service or entertainment conducted, other. sold or offered elsewhere than upon the premises (16) Electronic sign shall mean an advertising sign where the sign is displayed. whose message may be changed by electronic (30) On-premise advertising sign shall mean a process. sign which directs attention to a business, (17) Farm sign shall mean an on-premise sign commodity, service, items or entertainment sold, identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's offered or conducted on the same premises that the name. sign is located. (18) Garage sale sign shall mean an on-premise (31) Parking lot sign shall mean an auxiliary sign sign advertising the occasional sale of personal that lists the rules and regulations for the parking property items. A garage sale sign does not lot. include a sign advertising business products or (32) Political sign shall mean a sign whose produce. message relates to a political party, a candidate for (19) Graphic sign shall mean a sign which is an public office or a political issue. integral part of a building facade. The sign is (33) Projecting sign shall mean an on-premise painted directly on or otherwise permanently advertising sign, other than a wall sign which is embedded in the facade. attached to and projects out from a wall or a (20) Ground shall mean the average elevation of building. the ground upon which the sign supports are (34) Pylon sign shall mean a freestanding sign placed, except when the sign supports rest upon a erected upon one or more pylons or posts whose berm or other area elevated above the surrounding bottom edge is greater than eight feet above ground. In such cases, the average elevation of the ground level. base of such berm or other area shall be (35) Real estate sign shall mean a sign that considered as the ground. provides identification of property that is for lease, (21) Ground sign shall mean a freestanding sign rent or sale. mounted on supports or uprights and whose (36) Road classification shall refer to the system bottom edge is less than 8 feet above the ground. of classifying roads, according to the following (22) Group sign shall mean a sign displaying the scheme: names of a group of businesses which are located Class A All federal and state highways and in the same locale such as a city, village, shopping designated county highways. center, office or commercial park, etc. Class B All county highways except those (23) Home occupation sign shall mean a sign designated as class "A". which advertises a permitted home occupation. Class C All town roads. (24) Intersection shall mean the point at which Class D Roads within subdivisions which were the right-of-way lines meet or, for highway recorded prior to the adoption of the interchanges, the beginning and ending points of zoning ordinance. the on and off ramps. A "T" intersection shall be Class E All other roads. considered the same as a four-way intersection in (37) Side-by-side signs shall mean two or more the determination of the required distance of signs signs mounted adjacently on the same structure. from said intersection. Signs mounted on a 'V-shaped' frame that has an • (25) Limited family business sign shall mean a internal angle larger than 40 shall be considered sign which advertises a permitted limited family side-by-side signs. business. (38) Sign copy area shall mean the total area of a • (26) Logo shall mean an emblem, symbol or sign face which may be used for display of trademark identification placed on signs. advertising, message announcement, etc. (27) Marquee sign shall mean a sign mounted on (39) Sign face shall mean the total surface of a an overhanging canopy of a theater, auditorium, sign including the trim and copy area. fairground, museum or other such use. Page 10-44 rev. 013197