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authorizes to enter any property or premises to determine if the provisions of this chapter are being met. The inspector or city staff person shall make such an entrance or inspection during regular business hours, unless there is an emergency. (H) Signs in disrepair. The Building Official or his or her designee may order the removal of any sign that the owner or the responsible party is not maintaining according to the provisions of this chapter. Upon failure to meet the requirements of a correction notice in the specified time in such an order, the City Council may declare the sign to be a public nuisance, may have it removed and impounded and assess the cost of the removal to the sign owner or to the property owner. (1) Impoundment of signs on public property or within public right-of-way. The City Administrator or his or her designee may, at any time and without notice, remove and impound signs that have been installed on public property, within a public right-of-way, or within a public easement that are in violation of this chapter. The sign owner or his or her agent may retrieve an impounded sign subject to the following rules: (1) Any impounded sign maybe retrieved from the impound area within five business days of the impoundment or the City Administrator or his or her designee may dispose of it. The impound area can be located by contacting City Hall. Any cost incurred by the city for disposal of an impounded sign may be assessed to the sign owner or the sign owner's agent. (2) The city shall have no obligation to notify a property owner or sign owner or his or her agent that it has impounded a sign. (3) The city shall not be held liable for any damage to an impounded sign. (Prior Code, § 1008.081) (Ord. 679, passed 05-29-2001; Ord. 816, passed 01-22-2009; Ord. 847, passed 10-21-2010) § 161.037 GENERAL LOCATION, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS. (A) General standards. Every sign shall conform to the standards of this chapter whether or not a permit is required, and nothing contained herein shall be construed as modifying or repealing any of the provisions of this code relating to zoning. No sign shall be so located as to obscure or tend to obscure any existing sign. The following additional requirements are to be followed and met. (1) Each sign shall be securely built, constructed and erected on the building or ground. Temporary signs shall be so designed that they are not readily overturned. (2) No sign structure shall be attached or placed upon any building in such a manner as to obstruct any fire escape or any window or door nor shall any sign structure be attached to a fire escape. (3) The illumination of any sign located near a residential district shall be defused or indirect and located so as not to direct light on residences. (4) No swinging sign shall hereafter be erected or hung on or attached to any building within the city, and every such sign so erected, hung or attached prior to the effective date hereof which is deemed unsafe by the Building Inspector shall be immediately removed by the owner thereof or changed to conform with the requirements of this chapter when so ordered by the Building Inspector. (5) Where portions of a sign are subject to a different classification, each portion shall meet the requirements of its classification. (6) All illuminated signs shall have a shielded light source. The city does not permit signs that have light sources directly visible to pedestrians or to the operators of motor vehicles. (7) No sign shall display matter that has been deemed obscene by a court of competent jurisdiction. (8) No sign shall have moving sections or intermittent, blinking or flashing lights, except for government signs and signs with dynamic displays as allowed in § 161.038 of this chapter. (9) Each sign shall be used and maintained only in the manner permitted and subject to the conditions imposed at the time the permit therefor was granted. (10) Clearance of signs from conductors: the minimum clearance of any sign from unprotected electrical conductors (whether poles or other installations) shall not be less than 36 inches for conductors carrying not over 600 volts and 48 inches for conductors carrying more than 600 volts. (11) Signs along freeways: except as otherwise provided in this chapter and subject to state and federal laws, signs located on property adjacent to any freeway within the municipality (including Interstate Highway 35W and U.S. Highway 10) shall be business signs advertising businesses being conducted on the premises on which the signs are located. No changeable copy signs shall be located to face any freeway or be visible from the freeway. The provisions of this division (A) (11) and chapter, however, shall not be construed to render illegal or non -conforming any signs that are legally located along any such freeway at the effective date herein. (B) Signs allowed by district. The following table represents the allowable signage and area requirements (in square feet) by zoning district: Sign Type R-1 R-2 R-3 R-4 R-5 8-1 8-2 8-3 8-4 Li CRP PUD Billboards No 1 No No 1 No No No No No No 1 No No 1 No Construction"* 8 1 8 8 1 8 8 1 32 32 1 32 32 1 32 32 r 92