§ 118-166. Portable signs.

(a)

It shall be unlawful to place or maintain a portable sign at any location, unless the sign has a permit as described in division 4 of article III of this chapter.

(b)

A person applying for an operating permit for a portable sign must meet the following requirements to be given a permit; after receiving a permit, failure to maintain a portable sign in compliance with the following requirements shall be cause for the sign administrator to revoke the permit for the sign:

(1)

Every portable sign mounted on a trailer shall be equipped with a trailer hitch and locking device approved by the sign administrator to hold the trailer in a securely locked position during transport. All such hitching equipment shall also comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws regulating such;

(2)

Every portable sign not in transit shall be securely anchored to the ground by cables, ground supports or other means acceptable to the sign administrator to prevent such sign from being blown from the site. The sign shall be constructed in a manner to prevent letters or pieces of the sign from falling off the sign or from being blown off the sign by wind;

(3)

Portable signs shall, for the purposes of this chapter, be considered nonmobile, nonportable ground signs and thereby are subject to all sections of this chapter, including the structural requirements, spacing requirements, permitting and fee requirements, on-premises sections, and all other sections of this chapter applicable to ground signs, unless a section which applies by its terms to portable signs is in conflict with a section applying to ground signs, in which case the section applying specifically to portable signs would control;

(4)

Portable signs are prohibited from having any flashing or blinking lights; and

(5)

All electrically illuminated portable signs must be wired through operable ground-fault circuit interrupters.

(c)

A portable sign operating permit is nontransferable, i.e., a permit issued for one sign cannot be used on another sign.

(Code 1967, § 25½-12; Ord. No. 3593, § 1, 4-14-83; Ord. No. 4123, § 7, 4-11-85)