§ 17.104.020. Scope.

The provisions of these regulations shall apply to the display, construction, installation, alteration, use, maintenance, and location of all signs within the City of Hamilton. All signs displayed, constructed, installed or altered after the date of the adoption of these regulations shall be in conformance with the provisions of these regulations. All signs that are existing at the time of the adoption of these regulations shall not be altered nor enlarged without being brought into conformance with these regulations. The administrator of these regulations, as provided in Section 17.104.210 is hereby authorized and directed to enforce the provisions of these regulations. These regulations shall not regulate official traffic or government signs, the copy and message of signs, signs not intended to be viewed from a public right-of-way, window displays, product dispensers and point of purchase displays, scoreboards on athletic fields, flags of any nation, government, or noncommercial organization, gravestones, barber poles, religious symbols, commemorative plaques, the display of street numbers, temporary decorations or displays clearly incidental and customary and commonly associated with national, local or religious holiday celebrations, or any display or construction not defined herein as a sign.

(Ord. No. 340, 5-4-10)