It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to erect, construct, paint, post, hang, display, maintain or use any sign, or permit the erection, construction, painting, posting, hanging, display, maintenance or use of any sign on property within the control of such person, for any purpose, except as permitted by this article or as otherwise required by law.

No sign shall be placed, displayed or maintained on any premises either as a principal use, or accessory use, or incidental to a use, unless the sign relates to a lawful principal or accessory use of the premises where the sign is located.

It is hereby declared that all signs other than those expressly permitted by this Code are unsuitable uses of property in the village, which are unsightly and tend to depreciate the value of property in the village and discourage the most appropriate uses of land in the village.

No sign shall be placed, displayed or maintained on any public property in the Village, including any public right-of-way, without the express written permission of the owner of such property.

Where a permit is required for a sign pursuant to this Code, the application for such permit shall be in writing upon a form provided by the village for such purpose. In the absence of any official form for such application, the application shall contain, at a minimum, the written consent of the owner(s) of the property where the sign is to be located, a detailed plan for each such sign, including a drawing and specifications therefor, showing the proposed sign and the proposed location thereof. All permit applications shall be accompanied by the fee provided by law.

Sign permits issued pursuant to this article may be issued subject to reasonable conditions intended to protect the public health, morals, safety and general welfare, including reasonable restrictions on the time, place and manner of display of such signs.

Wherever in this article the Mayor is authorized to issue a permit for a sign, a determination of the Mayor granting or denying a permit for such sign may be appealed to the Board of Trustees, and such appeals may be heard in such manner as may be determined by the Board of Trustees.

Wherever in this article the Board of Trustees is, authorized to issue a permit for a sign or to make a determination on an appeal from a determination of the Mayor to grant or deny a sign permit, the determination of the Board of Trustees granting or denying a permit for such sign may be appealed to the Board of Appeals in the same manner as provided for other appeals to that Board.

Sign permits may be denied by the Mayor or Board of Trustees where it is found that the proposed sign(s) would adversely affect the public health, safety or general welfare, would be visually offensive either separately or in combination with other signs permitted on the same premises or would otherwise be in violation of the provisions of this article.

No public hearing shall be required prior to the issuance of a sign permit by the Mayor or Board of Trustees pursuant to this article, except where expressly provided otherwise.

For a period of 10 years after the effective date of this article, the provisions of this article shall not apply to signs which are lawfully existing on the effective date hereof.

All signs which are lawfully existing on the effective date hereof, but which are not authorized by or pursuant to this article, shall be removed on or before the tenth anniversary of the effective date of this article.

Without a permit, no more than one nonilluminated sign, located within ten feet of the front building line, and at least 10 feet from the front property line, no more than 72 square inches in surface area.

Without a permit, two nonilluminated signs, each located inside a dwelling and visible from the exterior of the dwelling, and each having a surface area no greater than four square feet. Such sign or signs may be displayed for no more than 30 consecutive days and no more than than 30 days in any one-hundred-twenty-day period.

With a permit from the Board of Trustees, wall signs composed of noncorrodible letters, emblems or other design, formed or carved in masonry or tile or made of anodic-treated aluminum to retain brilliance or longevity, and located on each side of a main building which faces a public street from which access to the site is obtained, provided that such signs shall not project more than nine inches from such building, and shall have a vertical dimension not exceeding 24 inches and horizontal dimension not exceeding 50% of the length of the building face on which it is located, and a height not exceeding 18 feet above the ground level at the base of the building wall at its highest point.

With a permit from the Board of Trustees, one sign not exceeding 10 square feet in area for each 20 linear feet of street frontage of the lot or premises, such frontage to be measured along the longer street frontage in the case of a corner lot. The bottom of such sign shall not be more than three feet above the ground beneath the sign, and the highest point of such sign shall not be more than 12 feet in height above the ground level.

With permits from the Board of Trustees, exterior signs displayed on or painted or attached or otherwise affixed to or placed on the wall of a building (including doors and windows fading public streets), provided that the maximum overall dimensions or maximum area of each such exterior sign do not exceed the following:

No exterior sign shall be permitted pursuant to this section if the location on the premises where the sign is displayed or attached faces upon a street where property on the opposite side of the street is in a residential district.

Signs permitted by this section may be illuminated.

With a permit from the Board of Trustees, wall signs composed of noncorrodible letters, emblems or other design, formed or carved in masonry or tile or made of anodic-treated aluminum to retain brilliance or longevity, and located on each side of a main building which faces a public street from which access to the site is obtained, provided that such signs shall not project more than nine inches from such building, and shall have a vertical dimension not exceeding 24 inches and horizontal dimension not exceeding 50% of the length of the building face on which it is located, and a height not exceeding 18 feet above the ground level at the base of the building wall at its highest point.

With a permit from the Board of Trustees, not more than one ground sign erected on each side of a main building facing a public street from which access to the site is obtained, provided that no such sign shall have an overall area in excess of 30 square feet or a height in excess of nine feet. Any such sign shall have at least three feet of clear space between the ground and the bottom of the sign, through which clear space only necessary supports may extend. All such signs shall be at least 100 feet from any residential district boundary either within or without the village and shall be set back at least three feet from any street line.

With a permit from the Board of Trustees, signs for the purposes of giving directional information not exceeding two square feet in area and four feet in height.

No exterior sign shall be permitted pursuant to this section if the location on the premises where the sign is displayed or attached faces upon a street where property on the opposite side of the street is in a residential district.

Signs permitted by this section may be illuminated.

No sign may contain any obscene content nor advocate or otherwise encourage any illegal activity.

No sign may be so located such that it covers more than 33% of the surface area of any window or other opening in or on which it is placed. Where signs are placed so as to be visible through windows or doors, or are placed on the surface of any window or door, the aggregate area of such signs may not exceed 40% of the maximum aggregate area of such window.

No sign may be illuminated, except where expressly permitted by law. Where illumination is permitted, such illumination shall be from an internal source or by backlighting with nonglaring lights or by shielded floodlights. No source of lighting for a sign shall be visible from off the property where the sign is located nor shall any lighting source be of such intensity as to project light onto any adjacent property. No illuminated sign shall face properties in an adjacent residential district.

No sign may contain any flashing or intermittent lights or lighting or moving or animated parts or displays or create the illusion of movement by synchronization or sequencing of the display, the lighting of the display, or otherwise.

No sign may emit any sound audible to, nor any odor or vibration detectable by, a reasonable person off the premises where the sign is located.

The provisions of this article shall not be applicable to any sign located entirely within an enclosed building or structure, provided that any such sign shall not be visible from outside said building or structure, and provided that such sign not emit any sound, odor or vibration detectable by a reasonable person outside such building or structure.

No sign shall be so placed or illuminated as to be or create a hazardous condition for traffic, or so as to unreasonably annoy or disturb the occupants of any other building.

No sign advertising or pertaining to a particular event, or series of events, shall be displayed on any property in the Village on or after the 14th calendar day after the conclusion of such event or series of events.