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Sec. 30-859. - Prohibited signs. <br />The following types of signs are prohibited in all districts: <br />(a) Abandoned signs which no longer identify or advertise a bona fide business, service, <br />product, or activity or for which no legal owner can be found. <br />(b) Inflatable balloons/displays, and searchlights; except as a permitted temporary sign <br />under subsection 30-867(h). <br />(c) Off -premises signs, except for advertising signs (billboards) specifically allowed by this <br />chapter. <br />(d) Signs imitating or resembling official government signs or signals. <br />(e) Signs attached to trees, utility poles, public benches, streetlights, or placed on any <br />public property or public right-of-way, except signs as permitted in subsection 30-873(b) <br />(4). <br />(f) Signs placed on trailers which are parked or placed for the primary purpose of <br />displaying the sign, except for lettering on buses, taxis, or vehicles operating during the <br />normal course of business. <br />(g) Signs suspended beneath a canopy, overhang, roof, or marquee without a minimum <br />clearance from grade of eight feet in either a vehicular or pedestrian way. <br />(h) Any roof sign or sign erected above the roofline of a building. <br />(i) Any sign placed within the vision clearance triangle that may obstruct motorist or <br />pedestrian visibility. <br />(j) Rotating or moving signs. <br />(k) Unsafe or dangerous signs as determined by the city administrator, or designee. <br />(1) Painted wall signs. <br />(m) Signs utilizing flashing and/or revolving beacon lights. <br />(n) Banner signs, except as a permitted temporary signs under subsection 30-867(h) or <br />permitted real estate signs under subsection -30-860(b)(5). <br />(Code 1982, § 900.22(3)(B); Ord. No. 09-06, § 1, 7-20-2009; Ord. No. 13-19, § 2,12-16-2013; Ord. No. 17-04, § <br />3, 2-21-2017) <br />State Law reference— Signs resembling traffic control devices prohibited, Minn. Stats. § 169.07. <br />