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