17.15.030 Exempt signs.
The following signs shall not require application, fee or sign permit. These exceptions shall not be construed as relieving the owner of the sign from responsibility for its erection, and its compliance with provisions of this code or any other law or ordinance regulating the same:
(1) Changing of the advertising copy or message on theater marquees, readerboards, and similar signs.
(2) Painting, repainting, cleaning, repairing and other normal maintenance, unless structural or electrical changes are made.
(3) Signs erected or installed by or at the direction of the City, such as traffic signs, legal notices, railroad warning signs, signs showing the location of underground public utility facilities, and other signs of a nonadvertising nature erected for warning or emergency purposes.
(4) Interior signs; provided, that no interior sign shall be permitted in the R-T, R-S-20, R-S-12, R-S-1, R-l and R-2, R-3, R-4, R-1-A and R-1-A2 zoning districts.
(5) Temporary signs and decorations that are customary for special holidays and that are erected on private property.
(6) Signs directly related to a municipal building, structure or installed by the City or required by a governmental entity.
(7) Bona fide religious symbols on the buildings or grounds of religious institutions.
(8) Traffic or pedestrian control signs, signs required by law, or signs indicating scenic or historic points of interest that are erected by or on the order of a public officer in the performance of his public duty.
(9) Sculptures, fountains, mosaics, and design features that do not incorporate advertising or identification.
(10) The flags of governments or noncommercial institutions such as schools, with the poles treated as structures.
(11) Official public notices of federal, state or local governments, official court notices.
(12) Signs not intended to be viewed by the public from the street right-of-way.
(13) Lettering or symbols painted directly onto or flush-mounted magnetically onto an operable vehicle.
(14) Identification signs upon recycling collection containers for public, charitable or nonprofit organizations.
(15) Emblems of local nonprofit organizations and community service clubs, including signs less than two square feet that identify the meeting place and time.
(16) Political signs. [Ord. 3790 § 3, 2006; Code 1970 § 17.05.030.]