A. 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 their public duty.

B. 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.

C. Signs erected or installed by or at the direction of the city, such as a city-wide system of freestanding directory signs allowing vehicular and pedestrian wayfinding throughout the city.

D. Public safety signs including temporary private ground or wall signs exclusively relating to the safety of the public (e.g., “no parking today,” “use covered walkway,” “do not enter,” “danger,” “loading zone”) may be located as needed for public safety without limitations as to number, size, or location so far as the requirements of this chapter are concerned.

E. Signs directly related to a municipal building, structure or installed by the city or required by a governmental entity.

F. The flag of governmental and public institutions.

G. The flag of a commercial institution not advertising a product to be left loose to fly in the breeze. Not to exceed one per business and twenty square feet in surface area.

H. Decorative flags and bunting for a celebration, convention or commemoration of significance to the community located on public right-of-way, when authorized by the city council for a prescribed period of time.

I. Banners located over the public right-of-way, which display governmental speech including government events and celebrations.

J. Temporary signs and decorations that are customary for special holidays and that are erected on private property.

K. Official public notices of federal, state or local governments; official court notices.

L. Signs incorporated into machinery or equipment by a manufacturer or distributor, which identify or advertise only the product or service dispensed by the machine or equipment, such as signs customarily affixed to vending machines, newspaper racks, telephone booths or gasoline pumps.

M. Lettering or symbols painted directly onto or flush-mounted magnetically onto an operable vehicle.

N. Advertising signs located on licensed taxicabs and buses or commercial vehicles operating during the normal course of business. Signs on public transit benches and shelters and on and within public transit vehicles.

O. The changing of the advertising copy or message on a sign or theater marquee, reader boards, and similar signs specifically designed for the use of replaceable copy.

P. Painting, repainting, cleaning, repairing or normal maintenance of an advertising structure or the changing of the advertisement copy or message thereon shall not be considered an erection or alteration which requires a sign permit unless a structural or electrical change is made.

Q. Interior signs.

R. Historic signs, typically wall or projecting signs, where the sign is proposed to be restored or authentically recreated as evidenced by historic photographs.

S. Sculptures, fountains, mosaics, and design features that do not incorporate advertising or identification.

T. Identification signs upon recycling collection containers for public, charitable or nonprofit organizations. (Ord. 005/2019 § 10 (Exh. B))