17.06.025 Existing nonconforming signs.
All nontemporary signs in existence at the time of adoption of this code that do not conform to the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed legal signs. Their status as legal signs shall expire and the signs shall become subject to the provisions of this chapter at the time one of the following actions is taken:
A. The sign message board structure or its support structure is altered.
B. The business at the site is changed.
C. The property upon which the sign is located or the property to which an off-premises sign is credited is sold to another owner.
D. A building upon which a sign has been constructed is destroyed or severely damaged by fire or by natural disaster that results in the removal of the damaged building.
E. A sign message board structure or its support structure has been destroyed or severely damaged by fire or by natural disaster that results in the removal of the damaged sign.
F. The property upon which the sign is located or the property to which an off-premises sign is credited is abandoned or unoccupied for a continuous period of 170 days.
Regular and routine maintenance or the changing of the sign message of a nonconforming sign does not alter the legal status of the sign. [Ord. 519 § 1 (Exh. A), 2010; Ord. 378 § 2 (Exh. 1), 1999.]