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10.71(1)—(24) 10.71 DEFINITIONS. As used in this (9) Community information sign shall mean a subchapter, the following words shall have the municipally-owned sign which displays definitions indicated: information of interest to the general community (1) Sign shall mean any object, device, display, regarding public places, events or activities. structure or part thereof, situated outdoors, (10) Construction sign shall mean a temporary which is used to advertise, identify, display, sign which describes or identifies a demolition or direct or attract attention to an object, person, construction project taking place on the institution, organization, business, product, premises. service, event or location by any means, (11) Crop sign shall mean a temporary sign including words, letters, figures, designs, which designates a variety, brand, or provides symbols, fixtures, colors, illumination or other identification of an agricultural crop, projected images. As used herein sign does not fertilizer, herbicide or pesticide that is being include the flag or emblem of any nation, grown or used at a specific location. organization of nations, or other governmental or (12) Development sign shall mean a sign which municipal agencies or units; traffic control or directs attention to a pending development of a other public agency signs; community property. information signs; displays within the confines of (13) Directional sign shall mean an on-premise a building; merchandise, pictures or models of auxiliary sign which provides directions for products or services incorporated in a window pedestrian or vehicular traffic, e. g., enter, exit, display; works of art which in no way identify a parking, or location of any place or area on the product or service; sculptural representations of same premise. an organization's or business's logo which do not (14) Directory sign shall mean an off-premise contain any words and are not illuminated except advertising sign with a copy area of 96 square that only one such representation of a particular feet or less. business's or organization's logo is permitted; (15) Double decked sign shall mean billboards scoreboards located on athletic fields; and signs or directory signs which are mounted one above mounted or painted on commercial vehicles and the other. the same are expressly excepted from regulation (16) Electronic sign shall mean an advertising under this subchapter. sign whose message may be changed by (2) Agriculture sign shall mean a sign electronic process. advertising agricultural products which are (17) Farm sign shall mean an on-premise sign available at a specific farm or are being identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's produced on the farm on which the sign is name. located. (18) Garage sale sign shall mean an on- (3) Apartment complex sign shall mean a sign premise sign advertising the occasional sale of that provides identification for an apartment personal property items. A garage sale sign complex on which the sign is located. does not include a sign advertising business (4) Appendage sign shall mean an additional products or produce. sign mounted above or hung below the primary (19) Graphic sign shall mean a sign which is an sign face. integral part of a building facade. The sign is (5) Auxiliary sign shall mean a sign mounted painted directly on or otherwise permanently separately and apart from the primary sign and embedded in the facade. which provides supplemental information such (20) Ground shall mean the average elevation as services, price, hours of operation, directions, of the ground upon which the sign supports are warning, etc. placed, except when the sign supports rest upon (6) Awning sign shall mean a sign painted or a berm or other area elevated above the installed on an awning. surrounding ground. In such cases, the average (7) Back-to-back sign shall mean signs that elevation of the base of such berm or other area are mounted back to back with the sign faces in shall be considered as the ground. opposing directions or on a 'V-shaped' frame (21) Ground sign shall mean a freestanding with an internal angle of less than 40. 'V-shaped' sign mounted on supports or uprights and whose frame signs with an internal angle larger than 40 bottom edge is less than 8 feet above the shall be considered side-by-side signs. ground. . (8) Billboard shall mean an off-premise (22) Group sign shall mean a sign displaying advertising sign with a copy area greater than 96 the names of a group of businesses which are square feet. • Page 10-51 • rev. 103105