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Ordinance 08-015 City Council; 6-16-09 SIGN, DIRECTIONAL. An on -site sign for the purpose of making specific locations known and to assist in finding these locations (e.g. "Parking," "Shipping Receiving Area"). SIGN, ELECTRONIC VARIABLE MESSAGE. A dynamic signs whose message are changed at reasonable intervals by electronic process or remote control and whose movement is the periodic changing of information against a solid background, engineered for maximum legibility and readability, and having a constant light level and glare reduced screens. This definition does not include static time, temperature and price displays which only change when necessary for accuracy. SIGN, FLAG. Any fabric or similar lightweight material attached at one end of the material, usually to a staff or pole, so as to allow movement of the material by atmospheric changes and which contains distinctive colors, patterns, symbols, emblems, insignia, or other symbolic devices. . SIGN, FREESTANDING. A sign that is attached to, erected on, or supported by some structure (such as a pole, mast, frame, or other structure) that is not itself an integral part of or attached to a building or other structure whose principal function is something other than the support of a sign. Monument, pole, and ground signs are all freestanding signs. SIGN, GOVERNMENTAL. A sign erected and maintained by or on behalf of the United States, the state, the county, or the city for the purpose of regulating traffic or for other civic purposes; the size, location, and height of which is dictated by the applicable agency to fulfill the intended civic purpose. SIGN, GROUND. Any freestanding sign with its sign face mounted on the ground or mounted on a base at least as wide as the sign and which has a total height not exceeding six (6) feet. SIGN, HISTORIC. An existing sign which has a special historical, architectural, cultural, or aesthetic value to the community. SIGN, ILLUMINATED. Any sign which contains an element designed to emanate artificial light directly or indirectly. SIGNILLUMINATION, BACKLIT, A direct source of light which illuminates a sign by shining through a translucent surface of a sign, including plastic signs, lit from an internal light source. SIGNILLUMINATION, DIRECT. A sign whose light source is either located in the interior of the sign so that the rays go through the face of the sign, or which is attached to the face of the sign and is perceived as a design element of the sign. SIGNILLUMINATION, EXTERNAL. Illumination of a sign that is affected by an artificial source of light not contained within the sign itself.