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Updated January 2025 – Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 106 5. Signs shall not be placed in locations that interfere with safe vehicular and pedestrian circulation or public safety signals and signs. Signs will not be placed in the sight triangles of intersections. 6. No sign shall be erected or maintained so as to obstruct and fire escape, required exit, egress window or door opening. 7. Signs shall be structurally designed in compliance with ANSI and ASCI standards. All signs using electricity shall be constructed according to the technical standards of a certified testing laboratory. 8. Signs using electricity must directly connect to wiring that is integrated into the building structure or buried underground; no cables or extension cords should run over the ground or up the side of a structure to power a sign. 4. Maintenance Standards. All signs shall be maintained in accordance with the following: 1. The property owner or tenant shall maintain the sign in a condition appropriate to the intended use. 2. Signs shall advertise or identify a legal business or other activity currently taking place, or which will take place in the near future, within the City of Gem Lake. Obsolete signs shall be removed by the property owner within a reasonable time, no longer than two months, a fter the sign becomes obsolete. A property owner or tenant may apply to the City Council for exemption if the sign removal will be unduly difficult to achieve (example: the sign is part of the building structure). 3. Signs shall be maintained in a safe, presentable and good structural condition at all times, including the replacement of defective parts, cleaning and other items required for the upkeep of the sign. There shall be no accumulation of rubbish or debris, or uncontrolled vegetation, under or near any sign. 6. Definitions. The definitions used in this section are now listed in Appendix A of The Consolidated Land Use Ordinance. 7. Severability. Should any section, subdivision, clause or other provision of this Ordinance be held to be invalid in any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole, or of any part hereof, ot her than the part held to be invalid.