OR 287-A-5 Exception to provisions of sign code AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS
ORDINANCE NO. 287A5
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS, AMENDING SECTION 10-
8-6 OF CHAPTER 10 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF COPPELL,
PROVIDING EXCEPTIONS TO THE PROVISIONS OF TBE SIGN CODE OF THE CITY;
PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABLIITY CLAUSE;
PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO HUNDRED
DOLLARS ($200.00) FOR EACH OFFENSE AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COPPELL, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. AMENDING SECTION 10-8-6 OF THE SIGN CODE
Chapter 10 (The Sign Code) of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Coppell
is hereby amended by amending Section 10-8-6 to read as follows:
"Section 10-8-6 EXCEPTIONS TO ARTICLE. The following personal property, real
estate, and special purpose political signs may be erected and
maintained under the conditions and exceptions listed below:
A. All signs under this paragraph shall conform to the following
conditions:
1. They must be set back a minimum of ten (I0) feet
from the city right-of-way.
2. They cannot exceed twenty (20) feet in height.
3. They must be detached (monument) signs.
4. Signs are limited to a maximum of thirty-six (36) square
feet of effective area per surface.
B. PERSONAL PROPERTY SALE AND SPECIAL PURPOSE
POLITICAL SIGNS. Permission is granted as a special
privilege for dwelling occupants for the erection of
nonilluminated personal property sale signs and special purpose
political signs to be erected in the required front yard of
dwellings no closer than fifteen (15) feet to any street curb
line, provided that only one (1) such sign not exceeding three
(3) square feet may be erected on the dwellling premises.
No permit shall be required. Paragraph A(3) is not applicable
to these signs.
C. REAL ESTATE SIGNS. Permission is granted to property
owners for the erection of a sign to advertise the sale, lease
or rent of the property on which the sign is located. Real
estate signs must be spaced at least fifty (50) feet apart
along a lot frontage and there may be no more than four (4)
such signs per lot, the total effective area of which may not
exceed thirty-six (36) square feet. Such signs shall be removed
as soon as the property to which they refer has been sold,
or seventy-five (75) percent rented or leased. A sign permit
is required. Paragraph A(3) is not applicable to these signs.
D. TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION SIGNS. Permission is granted
to developers to erect temporary construction signs designed
to identify contractors, financier, architects, engineer, and
to advertise the coming of new business on the premises the
sign pertains to. Such signs shall not be erected prior to
the issuance of the Building Permit of the project the sign
pertains to, and must be removed prior to the issuance of a
Certificate of Occupancy. Such signs shall comply with the
provisions of this chapter with the exception that no sign
shall contain more than one hundred (100) square feet in
effective area.
E. SIGNS ON UNDEVELOPED PROPERTY. Specifically limited
to real estate, development and/or temporary construction
ssigns must comply with sign design and size criteria as set
forth elsewhere within this ordinance."
SECTION 2. REPEALING CLAUSE
All ordinances, or parts of ordinances, inconsistent or in conflict with the
provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
If any article, paragraph or subdivision, clause or porvision of this ordinance
shall be adjudged invalid or held unconstitutional, the same shall not affect the validity
of this ordinance as a whole or any part or provision thereof, other than the part so
decided to be invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. PENALTY CLAUSE
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinance
sshall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished be a
penalty of fine not to exceed the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each offense,
and each and every day such offense is continued shall constitute a new and separate
offense.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance shall take effect immediately from and after the publication of
its caption, as the law in such cases provides.
DULY PASSED by the City Council of the City of CopDell, Texas, this the rid-~j-
day of (~,~.~ , 1985.
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CO85-0116