§ 64-37. Sign location requirements.

(a)

No sign other than sign types expressly exempted under section 64-21(b), (c) or (e) shall be erected, placed, located or maintained within the limit of any public alley, street or highway. Public streets or highway limits include all dedicated rights-of-way encompassing the traveled portion of the streets or highway, the shoulders ditches and adjacent dedicated areas. This prohibition applies to freestanding signs and those places on trees, utility poles, fence posts or stakes, and all other structures within the public alley, street or highway limits.

(1)

Any sign in violation of this section 64-37 may be removed by the village or its agent without notice or compensation.

(2)

This prohibition shall not apply to signs placed within the limits of streets or highways by duly constituted municipal, county or state authorities for the guidance or warning of traffic. Signs for the guidance or warning of traffic placed by municipal, county or state authorities are exempt from this chapter 64.

(b)

No person or entity shall erect or cause to be erected any sign which projects over any public sidewalk, street, alley or public place, except for an approved special exception with a license agreement signed by the property owner and/or sign owner, with village board approval.

(c)

No sign shall be located to obstruct traffic visibility as required in section 100-401.

(Ord. No. 854, § III, 12-20-11)