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CITY OF CENTERVILLE COUNTY OF ANOKA STATE OF MINNESOTA ORDINANCE # 39 AN ORDINANCE REGULATING SIGNS IN THE CITY OF CENTERVILLE, ANOKA COUNTY, MINNESOTA. The City Council of the City of Centerville ordains: SECTION I. PURPOSE AND INTENT The purpose of this Ordinance is to establish a set of standards for the fabrication, erection, use and maintenance for signs, symbols, markings, advertising devices or other items that serve as visual communication media. The provisions of this Ordinance are to allow creativity in sign design while at the same time ensuring that the public is not endangered, annoyed, distracted or displeased by unsafe, disorderly, indiscriminate and unnecessary use of visual communication media. This Ordinance establishes administration and procedures for requiring permits, payments of fees and providing for penalties for non-compliance. SECTION II. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES Those parts of Ordinance #4 (Zoning Ordinance) or any parts of other Ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. In all other respects said Ordinance #4 (Zoning Ordinance) and other Ordinances shall remain in full force and effect. SECTION III. DEFINITIONS Advertising Sign - An "Advertising Sign" is a sign, which directs attention to a business commodity, service or entertainment not exclusively, related to the premises where such a sign is located or to which it is affixed. Area Identification Sign - A freestanding sign that identifies the name of a residential subdivision, commercial or industrial development. Billboard - A sign erected for the purpose of advertising a product, event, person or subject not entirely related to the premises on which the sign is located. Business Frontage - The linear frontage of that portion of a building facing the right-of- way and occupied by one separate business.