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(b) Applicability. A sign permit is required within the City limits for on-premise and off- <br />premise signs, and for off-premise signs in the City's extraterritorial jurisdiction. <br />(1) On-premise signs to be located in a historic district or at a historic landmark shall <br />first receive approval for a Certificate of Appropriateness authorizing the activity under <br />Article 5, Division 6 of this Chapter 1 before an application for a sign permit may be <br />decided. <br />(2) Electrical permits under the electrical code in the City's Code of Ordinances are also <br />required for electric signs, except those designed to be plugged into an existing electric <br />outlet. <br />(3) A license agreement on City owned probert~ <br />(c) Exemptions .The following signs and activities do not require a sign permit: <br />(1) Signs not visible from the nearest public street toward which they are oriented. <br />(2) Temporary window displays consisting of merchandise or posters. <br />(3) National, state or other governmental flags up to 60 square feet in area. <br />(4) Balloons not exceeding 36 inches in greatest dimension. <br />(5) On-premises directional signs, except on properties zoned single-family or duplex, <br />up to four square feet in area and up to four feet in height. Only two of these signs may <br />be used on each street frontage of a premise (as shown on a~roved site preparation <br />ermits . <br />(6) Unlighted letters, numbers or symbols up to 24 inches in height that form an <br />architectural detail of a building. <br />(7) Signs facing the interior of athletic stadiums or fields or facing the exterior of <br />athletic stadiums or fields operated by nonprofit organizations or governmental entities. <br />(8) Unlit signs up to 32 square feet in area, on the premises of a governmental, religious, <br />educational or other noncommercial institution, which function solely as community <br />information signs. <br />(9) Signs that are displayed on vehicles that are being operated or stored in the normal <br />course of a business, such as signs indicating the name or the type of business, that are <br />located on moving vans, delivery trucks, trailers and other commercial vehicles; but only <br />if the primary purpose of such vehicles is not for the display of the signs thereon, and <br />only if such vehicles are parked or stored in properly designated and paved parking <br />spaces that are located in areas appropriate to their use as commercial or delivery <br />2 <br />