§ 118-179. Spectacular signs.  


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  • The following types of spectacular signs are prohibited:

    (1)

    Signs with strobe, rotating strobe, or blinking strobe lights;

    (2)

    Signs with flashing spotlights, rotating spot lights or blinking spotlights;

    (3)

    Automatically changeable advertising signs which display more than one message every three seconds;

    (4)

    Flashing lights with bulbs of greater than 15 watts;

    (5)

    Signs employing a stereopticon, motion picture machine or other type of video display capable of displaying moving video, even if the message is stationary;

    (6)

    Signs consisting of a static image projected upon a stationary object;

    (7)

    Signs which move or contain visible moving parts, including tn-vision signs with rotating slat messages; and

    (8)

    Signs placed perpendicular to the roadway with the exception of automatically changeable advertising which display no more than one message every three seconds.

(Code 1967, § 25½-11(m); Ord. No. 3593, § 1, 4-14-83; Ord. No. 9043, § 1, 11-30-00; Ord. No. 10,894, § 4, 5-19-08)