Dane County Code of Ordinances (2)

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10 - 42 (4) Appendage sign shall mean an additional (18) Garage sale sign shall mean an on-premise sign mounted above or hung below the primary sign advertising the occasional sale of personal sign face. property items. A garage sale sign does not (5) Auxiliary sign shall mean a sign mounted include a sign advertising business products or separately and apart from the primary sign and produce. which provides supplemental information such (19) Graphic sign shall mean a sign which is an as services, price, hours of operation, directions, integral part of a building facade. The sign is warning, etc. painted directly on or otherwise permanently (6) Awning sign shall mean a sign painted or embedded in the facade.. installed on an awning. (20) Ground shall mean the average elevation of • (7) Back to back sign shall mean signs that are the ground upon which the sign supports are mounted back to back with the sign faces in placed, except when the sign supports rest upon a opposing directions or on a 'V-shaped' frame berm or other area elevated above the surrounding with an internal angle of less than 40. ground. In such cases, the average elevation of the 'V-shaped' frame signs with an internal angle base of such berm or other area shall be larger than 40 shall be considered side by side considered as the ground. signs. • (21) Ground sign shall mean a freestanding sign • (8) Billboard shall mean an off-premise mounted on supports or uprights and whose advertising sign with a copy area greater than 96 bottom edge is less than 8 feet above the ground. • square feet. (22) Group sign shall mean a sign displaying the (9) Community information sign shall mean a names of a group of businesses which are located municipally-owned sign which displays in the same locale such as a city, village, shopping information of interest to the general community center, office or commercial park, etc. regarding public places, events or activities. (23) Home occupation sign shall mean a sign 1 (10) Construction sign shall mean a temporary which advertises a permitted home occupation. sign which describes or identifies a demolition or (24) Intersection shall mean the point at which construction project taking place on the the right-of-way lines meet or, for highway premises. interchanges, the beginning and ending points of (11) Crop sign shall mean a temporary sign the on and off ramps. A "T" intersection shall be - which designates a variety, brand, or provides considered the same as a four-way intersection in other identification of an agricultural crop, the determination of the required distance of signs fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide, that is being from said intersection. ,__s grown or used at a specific location. (25) Limited family business sign shall mean a (12) Development sign shall mean a sign which sign which advertises a permitted limited family directs attention to a pending development of a business. property. (26) Logo shall mean an emblem, symbol or (13) Directional sign shall mean an on-premise trademark identification placed on signs. auxiliary sign which provides directions for (27) Marquee sign shall mean a sign mounted on • pedestrian or vehicular traffic e. g., enter, exit, an overhanging canopy of a theater, auditorium, parking, or location of any place or area on the fairground, museum or other such use. same premise. (28) Mobile or portable sign shall mean a sign (14) Directory sign shall mean an off-premise mounted on a frame or chassis designed to be • advertising sign with a copy area of 96 square easily relocated and not permanently affixed to the feet or less. ground or other structure. (15) Double decked sign shall mean billboards (29) Off-premise advertising sign shall mean a or directory signs which are mounted one above sign which directs attention to a business, • the other. commodity, service, or entertainment conducted, (16) Electronic sign shall mean an advertising sold, or offered elsewhere than upon the premises sign whose message may be changed by where the sign is displayed. electronic process. (30) On-premise advertising sign shall mean a • (17) Farm sign shall mean an on-premise sign sign which directs attention to a business, identifying a farm by its name or by the farmer's commodity, service, items, or entertainment, sold, • name. offered or conducted on the same premises that the sign is located. rev. 043094