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The following types of signs are prohibited in all districts: <br />(1) Abandoned signs which no longer identify or advertise a bona fide business, service, product, or <br />activity or for which no legal owner can be found. <br />(2) Banners, pennants, festoons, and searchlights (inflatable balloons dis ~la~~s except as a <br />permitted temporary special event sign under section 3U-866(7). <br />(3) Off-premises signs, other than advert ~isin~ si<riis. billboards <br />(4) Signs imitating or resembling official government signs or signals. <br />(5) Signs attached to trees, utility poles, public benches, or streetlights, or placed on any public <br />property or public right-of--way. <br />(6) Signs placed on vehicles or trailers which are parked or placed for the primary purpose of <br />displaying the sign, except for portable signs or lettering on buses, taxis, or vehicles operating during <br />the normal course of business. <br />(7) Signs suspended beneath a canopy, overhang, roof, or marquee without a minimum clearance <br />from grade of eight feet in either a vehicular way or R in a pedestrian way. <br />(8) Any roof sign or sign erected above the roofline of a building. <br />(9) Any sign placed within 30 feet of any intersection that may obstruct motorist or pedestrian <br />visibility. <br />(10) Rotating, , or blovin~ Suns. <br />(11) Unsafe/dangerous signs as determined h~ the Cite Administrator, or desi,~7nec. <br />(12) Painted wall signs. <br />(13) Signs utilizing flashing for revolving beacon lights. <br />(Code 1982, ~ 900.22(3)(B)) <br />State law references: Signs resembling traffic control devices prohibited, Minn. Stats. ~ 169.07. <br />Sec. 30-860. Permit. <br />(a) Required. Unless otherwise provided by this subdivision, ~s the erection Alteration' <br />cllaiige of co ~~~ car relocatie~na„~f a si~ii shall require permits and payment of fees as described in <br />this section. No permit is required for the maintenance of a sign <br />(b) Exemptions. The following types of signs are exempt from permit requirements but must <br />otherwise be in conformance with all requirements of this subdivision: <br />(1) On-premises construction signs that comply with section 30-866{ <br />(2) On-premises directional/informational signs and namepl.ites having a sign area of four ~ feet <br />or less. <br />(3) .Portable A-frame signs in the Do~~°ntown District <br />(~}~ Political signs, on-premises private sale signs or on-premises event suns. <br />~~ On-premises reside~rtial or commercial real estate signs that ccnn~h~ ~~-i th section 3U-S66 <br />~- <br />{~}~ Window signs, provided they do not ~e cover more i han ai ~~~crccn i ~, t i he window area. <br />(c) Application. Application for a permit for the erection, xAlr~rari~ ~n, chan~c of cony, or relocation <br />of a sign shall be made to the ~ CityCity Administrator, or ~lcsigucc, upon a form <br />provided by the city and shall include the following information: <br />(1) The name and address of the owner of the sign. <br />(2) The street address or location of the property on which the sign is to be located, along with the <br />name and address of the property owner. <br />(3) The type of sign or sign structure as defined in this chapter. <br />(4) A site plan showing the proposed location of the sign along with the locations and square <br />footage areas of all existing signs on the same premises. <br />(5) Structural details as required. <br />Page 3 of 17 <br />