§ 7-16. Signs not requiring permits.

It is an affirmative defense to the provisions of this chapter requiring sign permits that the sign is:

(1)

Any sign required or erected by a municipal, state, or federal government for the purpose of public instruction, location or direction, street or highway designation, control of traffic, or a similar use incidental to a public interest;

(2)

Any sign of a warning, directive, or instructional nature erected by a public utility or transportation organization which operates a franchise from the city permitting the use of public property for the display of the signs, provided that the sign is approved in writing by the director of traffic and transportation as necessary for the successful operation of the utility or transportation organization and that the city council has granted special permission for its erection;

(3)

Any real estate sign with an envelope thirty-two (32) square feet in area or less;

(4)

Any temporary sign promoting a regional athletic event;

(5)

Any sign completely within an enclosed building;

(6)

Any single balloon not exceeding twenty-four (24) inches in any dimension which is attached to a vehicle or a structure;

(7)

Any hand-held sign or signs, symbols or displays on persons or animals;

(8)

Any sign located on newspaper vending machines and curbside residential newspaper holders provided that such devices are not placed so as to interfere with the safe movement of pedestrians or vehicular traffic;

(9)

Any sign located on the field side of scoreboards and fences of athletic fields; or

(10)

Any vehicle parking related signs.

(Ord. No. 2009-9034, § 1, 1-8-09)