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Sec. 30-864. - Changeable copy signs. (a) Unless otherwise specified by this subdivision, any changeable copy sign larger than 30 square feet will require a conditional use permit. (b) Changeable copy signs may only display advertising information for on-site businesses, public service announcements, or non-commercial copy. (c) Motor vehicle service stations. Signs for motor vehicle service stations shall be regulated by the provisions for the zoning district in which the facility is located, except t hat within a freestanding sign, an area not to exceed 16 square feet shall be allowed for continuous display (no flashing, scrolling or other animation) of digital or non-digital changeable copy identifying current fuel prices, in accordance with Minn. Stats. § 239.751. (d) Time and temperature signs. Within all commercial and industrial zoning districts, an area not to exceed 16 square feet within a freestanding or wall sign shall be allo wed for display of an electronic time and temperature sign subject to the sign provisions for the zoning district in which the sign is located. (e) Digital changeable copy signs. (1) In addition to subsections (a) and (b), the display must be static, a nd the transition from one static display to another must be no more than two seconds. The images and messages displayed must be complete in themselves and without continuation in content to the next image, message, or any other sign. (2) May not change more often than once every eight seconds. (3) Digital displays must be equipped with automatic dimming technology or other mechanisms that automatically adjust the signs illumination level based on ambient light conditions. (4) No sign may be of such intensity or brilliance as to impair the vision of a motor vehicle d river with average eyesight or to otherwise interfere with the driver's operation of a motor vehicle. (5) The display must be designed and equipped to freeze the device in one position if a malfunction occurs. The display must also be equipped with a means to immediately discontinue the display if it malfunctions, and the sign owner must immediately stop a digital display when notified by the city that it is not complying with the standards of this ordinance. (Code 1982, § 900.22(3)(F); Ord. No. 07-10, § 1, 7-16-2007; Ord. No. 13-19, § 2, 12-16-2013) Editor's note— Section 2 of Ord. No. 13-19, adopted Dec. 16, 2013, changed the title of § 30- 864 from "Changeable copy" to "Changeable copy signs."