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9.4  Prohibited Signs and Devices

9.4.1  All signs not expressly permitted under this chapter or exempt from regulation hereunder in accordance with the previous section are prohibited. Such signs include, but are not limited to:

(A)      Any sign that copies or imitates an official sign or purports to have official status;

(B)      Any illuminated tubing or strings of lights, including but not limited to those outlining property lines, open sales areas, rooflines, doors, windows, landscaping, or the edges of walls, except for perimeter down-lighting that is shielded to illuminate open sales areas but no land outside those areas, except those strings of lights exempt under Sections 9.2(F) and 9.6.4(E);

(C)      Beacons;

 (D)     Windblown devices;

(E)      Pennants;

(F)      Canopy signs;

(G)     Animated signs;

(H)      Neon and other similar type signs located in such a manner as to attract public attention from outside the building except as permitted in Section 9.6.4(J). Specifically, this refers to neon and other similar signs that:

(1)      Contain a message clearly intended for public recognition outside the building, such as “open,” “drive-through” and other similar messages; or

(2)      Are legible from the public right-of-way or adjacent property;

(I)       Portable signs;

(J)      Any other attention-attracting device, except for those conforming to the dimensional, design, lighting and other standards applicable to a sign in the same location.

(K)      Any sign that obstructs or substantially interferes with any window, door, fire escape, stairway, ladder, or opening intended to provide light, air, ingress, or egress to any building.

(L)      Any sign attached to gas pumps or gas pump islands that can be read or understood from off the property.

(M)     Vehicular Signs, parked along a roadway, except where the business has no reasonable alternative location on the site to park the vehicle.

(N)      Off site signs except as otherwise permitted in this Ordinance.

(O)     For Town Center locations refer to Section 9.6.

Cary, NC Land Development Ordinance On-line VIC Version - This site last updated 3/4/2008

Note: This is not the official version of the Cary Land Development Ordinance