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} • 10 - 45 (2) .Apartment complex signs may be installed on-premises for identification of an apartment • building or apartment complex. The sign may be either a ground or wall sign. (3) Auxiliary signs may only provide supplemental information such as services, price, hours of operation, directions,warning, etc., and may not include any other information regarding product lines. The logo or name of the related business may be included. • (4) Awning signs are subject to wall sign (11) Crop signs are permitted only while the crop regulations. is being grown and for no more than 30 days after (5) To qualify as a construction sign, a sign harvest. shall identify the project and may include the (12) Directional signs are not permitted in names of the contractors, engineers or architect, residential districts except for use by an apartment or products being used in the construction of a building or complex.. building but only during the time that (13) Distance measurements shall be measured construction or development is actively under along the pertinent right-of-way lines when way. The sign shall be removed within 30 days determining separation between signs or distance of the completion of the project. from intersections. (6) The total sign copy area of all on-premise (14) Double deck signs are not permitted. signs related to a business shall not exceed the (15) Electronic signs may be used only to maximum permitted sign copy area. Sign copy advertise activities conducted or goods and area shall be measured in the following manner: services available on the property on which the The copy area of signs which have a face, border signs are located or to present public service or trim shall consist of the entire surface area of information. Electronic signs may not display a the sign on which copy could be placed. Copy message for less than one-half of a second and may area of a sign whose message is applied to a not repeat a message at intervals of less than 2 background which provides no face, border or seconds. A traveling message may not travel trim shall be the area of the smallest rectangle slower than 16 light columns per second nor faster which can encompass all words, letters, figures, than 32 light columns per second. emblems, and other elements of the sign (16) Farm signs are limited to on-premise signs message. See sub. (10) for sample diagrams. identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's { (7) Copy area for appendage signs shall be name and may contain additional historical measured as provided in sub. (6) above. The information such as date of founding or century square foot total of all appendage sign copy areas farm designation or name or logo of the sign shall be included with the sign copy area of the sponsor. primary sign to provide the overall copy area of (17) Flashing or rotating lights on signs are not the sign. permitted. (8) The supporting structure or bracing of a (18) A garage sale sign may be displayed 7 days sign shall not be counted as a part of sign copy prior to the date of the sale and must be removed area unless such structure or bracing is made a no later than the day following the event. The sign part of the sign's message. must be located on the premises of the garage sale. (9) The copy area of back to back on-premise (19) Graphic signs are not permitted. ground or pylon signs shall be computed using (20) Logos may contain only the emblem or name the copy area of only one side. The side used of the business located on the same property or, on shall be the larger of the two sides. farm and crop signs, the name or emblem of the (10) The following illustrations demonstrate business sponsoring the signs. Logos may not be how sign copy area shall be determined. larger than 25% of the sign copy area and shall be included within said copy area. (21) Except for time and temperature signs and electronic signs, no fluttering, undulating, rotating, or other moving signs shall be permitted. rev. 103194