Boonville Definitions ordinance (Appendix C, Section 7.3-2)

Advertising sign: Any sign that advertises, promotes or gives information on products, events, or businesses not conducted within the premises or location upon which the sign is located.

Applicant: Any individual, corporation, association, firm, partnership and the like, singular or plural.

Approved combustible material: Wood, or materials not more combustible than wood, and approved combustible plastics.

Approved combustible plastics: Those plastics which, when tested in accordance with American Society for Testing Materials standard methods for test for flammability of plastics over 0.050 inch in thickness (D635-44), burn no faster than two and five tenths inches per minute in sheets of 0.060 inch thickness.

Area: The entire area within a continuous perimeter, enclosing the extreme limits of sign display, including any frame or border. Curved, spherical, or any other shaped sign face shall be computed on the basis of actual surface area. The computation for signs composed of individual letters, numerals, or other devices shall be the sum of the area of the smallest rectangle or other geometric figure encompassing each of said letter or devices. The calculation for a double-faced sign shall be the area of one face only. Double-faced signs shall be so constructed that the perimeter of both faces coincide and are parallel and not more than 24 inches apart.

Attention-attracting devices: Any flasher, blinker, animation, banner, clock or other object designed or intended to attract the attention of the public to an establishment or sign.

Awning: A shelter projecting from and supported by the exterior wall of a building constructed of nonrigid materials on a supporting framework.

Billboards: Same as advertising sign.

Building sign: Any sign attached to or projecting from a building, at a 90 degree angle, and is made an integral part of the building.

Changeable copy sign: Any panel which is characterized by changeable copy illuminated or unilluminated regardless of method of attachment. Changeable copy signs shall be permitted in accordance with the requirements for the same type primary sign.

Code enforcement officer: The city inspector, or his agent, of the City of Boonville is charged with the administration and enforcement of the sign ordinance.

Combination sign: Any sign which combines the characteristics of two or more types of signs. Combination signs shall conform to all requirements for all types of signs comprising the combination sign.

Detached sign type "A": Any free-standing sign which has a clearance of less than ten feet.

Detached sign type "B": Any free-standing sign which has a clearance of ten or more feet.

Detached sign type "C": A monument type identification sign which rises from the ground, is either illuminated or unilluminated, and generally has no clearance under it.

Electrical sign: Any sign which has characters, letters, figures, designs, faces, backgrounds of outlines illuminated by incandescent, neon or fluorescent lamps or luminous parts of the sign proper, these light sources being either external or internal, or any sign which uses electrical/mechanical equipment or devices in its operation.

Erect: To build, construct, attach, hand, place, suspend, or affix and shall also include the painting of signs on the exterior of a building or structure.

Facade: The front or main face of any building or structure on which the street or frontage road which has been established as a permanent address as listed in the city directory.

Free-standing sign: Any sign supported by uprights, braces, poles or other vertical members in or upon the ground and not attached to a building.

Highway signs: Same as advertising signs.

Identification sign: A sign giving the name and address of a building, business, development or establishment. Such signs may be wholly or partly devoted to a readily recognized symbol.

Illuminated sign:

(a) Semi-illuminated sign. Any sign which is uniformly illuminated internally over its entire area, including the area of the sign, by use of electricity or other artificial light.

(b) Indirectly illuminated sign. Any sign which is partially or completely illuminated at any time by an external light source which is so shielded as to not be visible at eye level. (c) Fully illuminated sign. Any sign which is illuminated by an external or internal light source which is visible.

Letter display: Individual letters mounted on a facade or parapet wall.

Location: A lot, premise, building, wall, property, or any place whatsoever, upon which a sign is located.

Mansard roof: A roof which appears to be a part of the facade (wall), usually constructed for appearance only.

Marquee or canopy: A covering structure projecting from and attached to a building, or self supporting.

Nonilluminated sign: Any sign which is lighted by natural sunlight only.

Painted wall sign: A sign which is painted directly on a building or structure. Painted wall signs will be permitted subject to the same restrictions as wall signs.

Permanent sign: A sign constructed to remain indefinitely.

Portable sign: A sign which is not permanently affixed to one location and has the capability of being moved from one site to the next without disassembly.

Roof level: Where the eaves of the roof connect to the top of the wall, except where a mansard roof is used. Mansard roof level shall be the uppermost elevation of the roof.

Roof line: That part of the roof or parapet which covers the major area of the building.

Roof sign: A sign any part of which extends above the high point of a roof or parapet wall of a building and which is wholly or partially supported by the building.

Sign: The term sign shall mean and include every sign, name, number, identification, description, announcement, declaration, demonstration, device, display, flag banner, pennant, illustration, beacon, light, or insignia and structure supporting any of the same, affixed directly or indirectly to or upon any building or outdoor structure, or erected or maintained upon a piece of land and which directs attention to an object, product, service, place, activity, person, institution, organization or business.

Structure: The supports, uprights, bracing and framework for the sign, including foundations where applicable.

Subdivision amenity sign: A sign directing traffic to amenities such as a clubhouse or swimming pool within the subdivision.

Subdivision entrance marker: A sign identifying the subdivision, located at one or more of the subdivision entrances.

Temporary sign: A sign of noncombustible or combustible materials, with or without a frame, which is usually attached to the outside of a building on a wall or store front, fence, tree, utility pole, or temporary structure, for a limited period of time; or a sign which is not permanently attached to the ground, building or other load-bearing structure. Temporary signs are intended to be displayed for a short period of time not to exceed 30 days.

Wall sign: A sign attached to or erected against an exterior wall of a building or structure, which projects not more than 12 inches from a wall and presents only one face of advertising copy to the public.