SEC. 13.03. DEFINITIONS. The following terms, as used in this Chapter, shall have the meanings stated:

1. "Advertising Signs" - A sign used to advertise products, goods or services not exclusively related to the premise on which the sign is located.

2. "Address Sign" - A sign communicating only a street address.

3. "Alteration" - Any major alteration to a sign excluding routine maintenance, painting or change of copy.

4. "Area Identification Sign" - A freestanding sign identifying the name of a single or two-family residential subdivision consisting of twenty (20) or more lots; a residential planned unit development; a multiple residential complex consisting of three (3) or more independent operations; a single business consisting of three (3) or more separate structures; a manufactured home court; or any integrated combination of the above. The sign shall only identify an area, complex or development and shall not, unless approved by the Council, contain the name of individual owners or tenants. The sign may not contain advertising.

5. "Awning" - A temporary hood or cover projecting from the wall of a building, and which can be retracted, folded or collapsed against the face of a supporting building.

6. "Banners" - Attention getting devices which resemble flags and are of a paper, cloth or plastic-like consistency.

7. "Bench Signs" - A sign affixed to a bench such as at a bus stop.

8. "Billboard" - An advertising sign.

9. "Building Facade" - That portion of the exterior elevation of a building extending from grade to the top of the parapet wall or eaves and the entire width of the building elevation.

10. "Business Sign" - Sign identifying a business or group of businesses, either retail or wholesale, or any sign identifying a profession or used in the identification or promotion of any principal commodity or service, including entertainment, offered or sold upon the premises where the sign is located.

11. "Campaign Sign" - A temporary sign promoting the candidacy of a person running for governmental office, or promoting an issue to be voted on at a governmental election.

12. "Canopy Sign" - Message or identification affixed to a canopy or marquee that provides a shelter or cover over the approach to any building entrance.

13. "Construction Sign" - A sign at a construction site identifying the project or the name of the architect, engineer, contractor, financier or other involved parties.

14. "Directional Sign" - A sign erected with the address and/or name of a business, institution, church or other use or activity plus directional arrows or information on location.

15. "Directory Sign" - An exterior informational wall sign identifying the names of businesses served by a common public entrance in a shopping center or office building.

16. "Flashing Sign" - An illuminated sign upon which the artificial light is not kept constant in terms of intensity or color when the sign is illuminated.

17. "Freestanding Sign" - Self-supported sign not affixed to another structure.

18. "Identification Sign" - A sign which identifies the business, owner, manager, resident or address of the premises where the sign is located and which contains no other material.

19. "Illuminated Sign" - Sign illuminated by an artificial light source either directed upon it or illuminated from an interior source.

20. "Informational Sign" - Any sign giving information to employees, visitors or delivery vehicles, but containing no advertising or identification. Gas price and menu board signs are informational signs and shall not be included in calculating the size limitations imposed within the respective zoning district.

21. "Institutional Sign" - A sign identifying the name and other characteristics of a public or semi-public institution on the premises where the sign is located.

22. "Integral Sign" - A sign carrying the name of a building, its date of erection, monumental citations, commemorative tablets and the like when carved into stone, concrete or similar material or made of bronze, aluminum or other permanent type of construction and made an integral part of the structure.

23. "Marquee" - A canopy.

24. "Menu Board" - A sign containing a food price list for restaurant customers, but containing no advertising or identification.

25. "Motion Sign" - Any sign which revolves, rotates, has moving parts or gives the illusion of motion.

26. "Nonprofit Organization" - A corporation formed under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 317, a church or community or civic group.

27. "Parapet" - A low wall which is located on a roof of a building.

28. "Portable Sign" - A sign designed to be movable from one location to another and which is not permanently attached to the ground, sales display device, or structure.

29. "Projecting Sign" - A sign, other than a wall sign, which is affixed to a building and perpendicular from the building wall.

30. "Public Entrance" - Passage or opening which affords entry and access to the general public.

31. "Public Entrance, Common" - A public entrance providing access for the use and benefit of two (2) or more tenants or building occupants.

32. "Reader Board" - A sign with an electronic changing message.

33. "Real Estate Sign" - A business sign placed upon property advertising that particular property for sale or rent.

34. "Roof Line" - The top of the coping or, when the building has a pitched roof, the intersection of the outside wall with the roof.

35. "Roof Sign" - Sign erected, constructed or attached wholly or in part upon or over the roof of a building.

36. "Sign" - Use of words, numerals, figures, devices or trade marks by which anything is made known such as individuals, firms, professionals, businesses, services or products and which is visible to the general public.

37. "Sign Area" - The area within the marginal lines of the surface of a sign which bear the advertisement or, in the case of messages, figures or symbols attached directly to a building or sign structure, that area which is included in the smallest rectangle or series of geometric figures used to circumscribe the message, figure or symbol displayed thereon.

38. "Sign, Maximum Height of" - The vertical distance from the grade to the top of the sign.

39. "Sign Structure" - The supports, uprights, bracing and framework for a sign including the sign area.

40. "Street Frontage" - The proximity of a parcel of land to one or more streets. An interior lot has one (1) street frontage and a corner lot has two (2) or more frontages.

41. "Temporary Sign" - A sign erected or displayed for a specified period of time.

42. "Wall Sign" - A sign affixed to the exterior wall of a building and which is parallel to the building wall. A wall sign does not project more than twelve (12) inches from the surface to which it is attached, nor extend beyond the top of the parapet wall.

43. "Wall Graphics" - A sign painted directly on an exterior wall.

44. "Window Sign" - A sign affixed to or inside of a window in view of the general public. This does not include merchandise on display.