Sec. 326.207. - Mobile signs.

(a) Compliance. Mobile signs shall comply with all requirements of this Building Code except as may be otherwise specifically provided in this Part or in Section 320.414 . (b) Permit required; term. A mobile sign located, placed or parked or otherwise utilized for display purposes on a site or premises shall have a sign permit issued for each installation of each sign on each site or premises not less than 24 hours prior to the placement of the mobile sign. The permit may be obtained only by a licensed and bonded sign contractor and shall be valid for the length of time stated in the permit; provided, the maximum length of time that a mobile sign may be placed on any lot or parcel of land is a cumulative total of 30 days during the period from January 1 through June 30 and a cumulative total of 30 days during the period from July 1 through December 31 of any calendar year. Mobile signs shall be permitted in only commercial and industrial zoning districts, except that no mobile shall be permitted in the CPO or CN zoning districts. Mobile signs shall be construed as and determined in the calculation of allowable number and square footage of on-site signs as set forth in Chapter 656 , Part 13. (c) Posting. A copy of the sign permit shall be posted on the sign in a conspicuous place visible to the public and inspectors. (d) Location restrictions. Mobile signs shall not be located or maintained: (1) In street rights-of-way or within ten feet of a street right-of-way. (2) In a zoning district not otherwise provided for in this Section. (3) Within 50 feet of a private property line or within 25 feet of the intersection of two street right-of-way lines. (4) Within five feet of an electric, telephone or other utility pole, guy wire or utility line. (5) Closer than 200 feet to another mobile sign previously permitted and currently located on the same lot or parcel. (e) Wind load requirements. Mobile signs shall be adequate to withstand wind loads specified in Section 326.201 and shall be anchored at each installation so as to prevent sliding or overturning resulting from these loads. (f) Electrical connections; cords. Electrical connections to mobile signs may be made through type SO or STO flexible 12/3 cords not more than 200 feet in length and supplied by an approved, grounded, weatherproof, exterior electrical outlet on a circuit with a capacity of not less than 20 amperes. The electrical cord of one mobile sign shall not overlap or connect to another mobile sign. These cords shall not be extended through doors, windows or other openings into buildings and shall not be laid on driveways, pavements, sidewalks and walkways or an area prescriptively used for pedestrian or vehicular traffic. Cords crossing driveways, sidewalks, pavement or prescriptively used areas shall be carried overhead and conform to the following: (1) They shall have a minimum clearance of 18 feet above grade over driveways and pavement. (2) They shall have a minimum clearance of ten feet above grade over sidewalks and walkways. (3) Cords spanning a distance greater than 25 feet shall be supported by a steel message cable not less than one-quarter of an inch in diameter and shall be taped thereto at five-foot intervals. (g) Electrical transformers and ballast. Electrical sign transformers and ballast in mobile signs shall be of the high-power factor type and an approved accessible means of disconnecting electrical current shall be provided. (h) Certification of electrical signs. Mobile signs which include electrical lighting or equipment shall have been approved and labeled by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc. or shall have been certified by a certified master electrician to be in compliance with electrical regulations and this Part. (i) Maintenance of log of signs owned or sold. Each mobile sign contractor or manufacturer shall maintain a log of signs owned or sold by him identifying these signs by serial numbers or other identification system. The log shall provide the name of the master electrician who wired the sign or the underwriter's identification code. The log shall contain the name of the purchaser of signs which are sold. (Ord. 2001-1160-E, §§ 14, 17) Note— Former § 326.208 .