(1) A swinging projecting sign;

(2) Signs attached to or placed upon a vehicle or trailer parked on private or public property designed to operate as a de facto permanent advertising sign. This provision is not to be construed as prohibiting the identification of a firm or its principal products on a vehicle operating during the normal course of business. This does not include automobile for sale signs or signs attached to licensed buses or taxis;

(3) Private signs placed in or upon a public right-of-way, except as expressly provided herein;

(4) Any sign that constitutes a traffic hazard or detriment to traffic safety because of size, location, movement, content, or method of illumination. Any sign that obstructs the vision of drivers or detracts from the visibility of any official traffic control device or diverts or tends to divert the attention of drivers of moving vehicles away from traffic movement on streets, roads, intersections, or access facilities. No sign shall be erected so that it obstructs the vision of pedestrians, or which by its glare or by its method of illumination constitutes a hazard to traffic. No sign may use words, phrases, symbols or characters in such a manner as to interfere with, mislead, or confuse the steady and safe flow of traffic;

(5) Any sign or advertising structure or supporting structure that is torn, damaged, defaced or destroyed;

(6) Signs attached to utility poles, trees, rocks or other natural features;

(7) Signs attached to subdivision fences;

(8) Signs attached to benches on public rights-of-way;

(9) Billboards and product advertising signs; roof signs, including signs painted directly on a sloped or gabled roof surface; strobe lights, lasers; strings of streamers; and all other signs not otherwise specifically authorized or exempted by this chapter;

(10) Off-premises signs except those expressly permitted herein;

(11) Balloons or inflatables attached, anchored or tethered to a roof of a building. [Ord. 3790 § 3, 2006; Code 1970 § 17.05.040.]