Permitted signs for all districts are highway direction signs and markers, announcing the location or directing traffic to given locations, which include but are not limited to the following:

   (A)   Service areas–automobile, food, lodging;

   (B)   Public and quasi-public information signs; and

   (C)   Business or business districts.

(1983 Code, § 9-11-1) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   The following nonflashing, nonilluminated signs are allowed:

   (A)   Signs advertising the sale or rental of the property on which the sign is located, or the sale of agricultural products grown or produced on the property; however, no such signs shall exceed 12 square feet in area. No sign shall be placed closer than ten feet to the property line, provided the Zoning Administrator may require a greater setback or other location so that the sign will not obstruct the view along any street, or at any intersection, private driveway, field entrance or other point of ingress or egress;

   (B)   Church bulletin boards, located on the site, which shall not exceed 24 square feet in area, nor be any closer than 30 feet to a street right-of-way; and

   (C)   Church directional signs, not to exceed two square feet in area.

(1983 Code, § 9-11-2) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   In all residence districts, the following classes of signs are permitted in accordance with the regulations set forth:

   (A)   Nonflashing, nonilluminated accessory signs.

   (B)   Name plates and identification signs, subject to the following:

   (C)   For sale and to rent signs, subject to the following:

   (D)   Signs accessory to parking area, subject to the following:

   (E)   Nonflashing business signs, subject to the conditions stipulated. Church bulletins are subject to the following:

(1983 Code, § 9-11-3) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   In all business districts the following signs are permitted, subject to the requirements set forth hereinafter.

      (1)   Restrictions imposed hereinafter on the projection of signs across property lines into the public way shall not apply to signs located on marquees or canopies, provided that any sign located on a marquee or canopy shall be affixed flat to the surface thereof and, further, that no sign shall extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of the marquee or canopy, except that individual, free-standing letters may project to a height of not exceeding 24 inches above same.

      (2)   Restrictions imposed herein on the projection of signs across property lines into the public way shall not apply to signs located on awnings, provided that any sign located on an awning shall be affixed flat to the surface thereof, shall be nonilluminated and nonflashing and shall indicate only the name and address of the establishment on the premises. Further, no such sign shall extend vertically or horizontally beyond the limits of the awning.

         (a)   Signs suspended from any building shall not project more than 24 inches beyond the building line, and the bottom of the sign shall not be less than eight feet above the finished grade of the sidewalk.

         (b)   Any sign projected or suspended from a building shall not exceed 12 feet in height, and its location and arrangement shall be subject to approval by the Zoning Administrator. No sign except those suspended from buildings shall be erected or placed between the street line and the building line.

(1983 Code, § 9-11-4) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   The following signs are permitted, and shall be governed as follows:

   (A)   All signs and name plates permitted in the business districts.

   (B)   Billboards, advertising and poster panels shall not have an area exceeding 275 square feet.

   (C)   The gross area in square feet of all signs of a zoning lot shall not exceed six times the lineal feet of frontage of the zoning lot, provided the gross area of flashing signs shall not exceed three times the lineal feet of frontage of the lot.

   (D)   No sign shall project higher than 45 feet above the ground level beneath it.

   (E)   No advertising sign shall be located within 500 feet of any public park of more than five acres in area.

   (F)   No advertising sign shall be located within 75 feet of any property located in a residence district.

(1983 Code, § 9-11-5) (Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)

   Regulations of signs in the Agricultural District shall apply.

(1983 Code, § 9-11-6) (Ord. 532, passed 5-14-1974; Ord. 09-07, passed 9-8-2009)