Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/ae8cabd1-66eb-4a1c-9224-92bbca5e792f ↗

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H. Storage containers and receptacles. On F. Any temporary sign, other than those signs
fuel tanks, storage containers, and/or solid allowed pursuant to Section 20.9.
waste receptacles or their enclosures, G. Any other signs not specifically allowed by
except for a manufacturer’s or installer’s the provisions of this article.
identification, appropriate warning signs
and placards, and information required by
law.
20.6.3 Display restrictions
20.6.2 Prohibited signs Except as otherwise provided in this article, the
Except as otherwise provided in this article, the following display features are prohibited:
following signs are prohibited: A. Animated features which rotate, move, or give
A. Billboards. the appearance of moving by mechanical, wind,
B. Signs that could be confused with any or other means. Barber poles no more than
authorized traffic signal or device or that three feet in height and 10 inches in diameter
interfere with, obstruct, confuse, or mislead and clocks are excepted from this restriction.
traffic. B. Sound, odor, or any particulate matter
C. Bandit signs. including bubbles, smoke, fog, confetti, or
D. Signs or other devices that are inflatable or ashes.
affected by the movement of the air or C. Lighting devices with intermittent, flashing,
other atmospheric or mechanical means, rotating, blinking, or strobe light
including inflatable balloons, spinners, illumination, animation, motion picture, or
strings of flags and pennants, feather laser or motion picture projection, or any
banners, fixed aerial displays, streamers, lighting effect creating the illusion of
tubes, and inflated characters used as motion, as well as laser or hologram lights.
signs, whether attached to a sign or to D. Search lights or laser light displays when
vehicles, structures, poles, trees and other used as attention-attracting devices.
vegetation, or similar support structures, E. Strings of lights used in connection with
except as allowed in Section 20.9. commercial premises, except when used
E. Any sign which advertises a business no for temporary lighting for decoration, and
longer in existence or a product or service lights arranged in the shape of a product,
no longer being sold, except for landmark arrow, or any commercial message.
signs. CITY OF PORTLAND LAND USE CODE | 20-9 SIGNS

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