“Awning” means a roof-like cover, often of fabric, plastic, metal, or glass designed and intended for protection from the weather or as a decorative embellishment, and which projects from a wall or roof of a structure primarily over a window, walk, or the like. Any part of an awning that also projects over a door shall be counted as an awning.

“Balloon” means a bag made of lightweight material supported by helium, hot or pressurized air that is greater than 24 inches in diameter.

“Banner” means a strip of cloth, canvas, plastic sheet or similar type of material upon which a sign is painted, drawn, or otherwise affixed.

“Blinking sign” means a directly- or indirectly-illuminated sign that exhibits changing light or color effect by any means, so as to provide intermittent illumination that includes the illusion of intermittent blinking light by means of animation. Also any mode of lighting that resembles twinkling or sparkling.

“Building” means any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.

“Canopy” means a roof-like cover, often of fabric, plastic, metal, or glass on a support, that provides shelter over a doorway.

“Commercial copy” means a sign designed to advertise a message that aims at catching and holding the interest of the prospective buyer, and at persuading him or her to make a purchase.

“Commercial speech” means speech advertising a business, profession, commodity, service, or entertainment.

“Elevation” means the view of the side, front, or rear of a given structure.

“Erect” means an activity of constructing, building, raising, assembling, placing, affixing, attaching, creating, painting, drawing, or any other way of bringing into being or establishing.

“Flashing sign” means a directly- or indirectly-illuminated sign that exhibits changing light or color effect by any means, so as to provide intermittent illumination that includes the illusion of intermittent flashing light by means of animation. Also any mode of lighting that resembles zooming, twinkling, or sparkling.

“Freestanding sign” means any sign which has supporting framework that is placed on, or anchored in, the ground and which is independent from any building or other structure.

“Frontage” means the line of contact of a property with the public right-of-way.

“Government sign” means a sign that is constructed, placed, or maintained by the federal, state, or local government or a sign that is required to be constructed, placed, or maintained by the federal, state, or local government either directly or to enforce a property owner’s rights.

“Height of sign” means the height of the sign shall be computed as the vertical distance measured from the base of the sign at grade to the top of the highest attached component of the sign.

“Illuminated sign” means any sign that contains an element designed to emanate artificial light internally or externally.

“Interior sign” means a sign that is located within the interior of any building, or within an enclosed lobby or court of any building.

“Marquee” means any permanent roof-like structure projecting beyond a building or extending along and projecting beyond the wall of that building, generally designed and constructed to provide protection from the weather.

“Noncommercial copy” means a sign that is not purposed for commercial messaging (see “commercial copy”).

“Noncommercial speech” means dissemination of messages not classified as commercial speech that includes, but is not limited to, messages concerning political, religious, social, ideological, public service, and informational topics.

“Nonconforming sign” means a sign which was lawfully erected, altered or maintained, but no longer conforms to the provisions of this code.

“Off-premises sign” means a commercial speech sign that directs the attention of the public to a business, activity conducted, or product sold or offered at a location not on the same premises where such business sign is located. For purposes of this chapter, easements and other appurtenances shall be considered to be outside such platted parcel of land and any sign located or proposed to be located in an easement or other appurtenance shall be considered an off-premises sign.

“Owner of grounds” means the legal owner of property as officially recorded by the Haines Borough.

“Owner of sign” means the legal owner of a sign, including mounts, supports, sign face, and support structures.

“Permanent sign” means any sign that is manifestly designed to remain in a fixed position.

“Portable sign” means any sign that is manifestly designed to be transported, including by trailer or on its own wheels, even though the wheels of such sign may be removed and the remaining chassis or support is converted to another sign or attached temporarily or permanently to the ground since this characteristic is based on the design of such a sign.

“Principal structure” means the building in which the principal primary use of the lot is conducted. Lots with multiple principal uses may have multiple principal buildings, but storage buildings, garages, and other clearly accessory uses shall not be considered principal structures.

“Projecting sign” means any sign that is affixed to a building or wall in such a manner that its leading edge extends more than two feet beyond the surface of such building or wall face.

“Public right-of-way” means the planned right-of-way for a public street.

“Roadway” means that portion of an improved surface designed or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, exclusive of the surface outside of the solid white lines identifying the berm or shoulder.

“Roadway shoulder” means that portion of the improved surface of a roadway contiguous with the traveled way that accommodates stopped vehicles, emergency use, and lateral support of the subbase, base and surface courses.

“Roof” means the exterior surface and its supporting structure on the top of a building or structure. The structural make-up of which conforms to the roof structures, roof construction and roof covering sections of this title.

“Sandwich board sign” means a sign made of two usually hinged boards designed for placement on the ground upon which is displayed a message on both outwardly facing sides of the boards.

“Sign” means any letter, word or symbol, poster, picture, statuary, reading matter, or representation in the nature of advertisement, announcement, message or visual communication, whether drawn, painted, posted, printed, affixed, or constructed, including all brackets, braces, supports, wires, and structures, which is displayed for informational or communicative purposes.

“Substitution of copy” means a sign or portion thereof with characters, letters, or illustrations that can be changed, rearranged or substituted without altering the face or the surface of the sign. “Substitution of copy” signs do not include signs upon which characters, letters or illustrations change or rearrange only once in a 24-hour period.

“Temporary sign” means a banner, pennant, poster, or advertising display constructed of paper, cloth, canvas, plastic sheet, cardboard, wallboard, plywood, or other like materials that appears to be intended or is determined by the manager to be displayed for a limited amount of time.

“Unsafe” means any sign that is determined by the borough not to the conform to the provisions set forth in HBC Title 8, Health and Safety.

“Vehicle” is a means of carrying or transporting something.

“Wall-mounted sign” means any building sign attached parallel to, but within two feet of, a wall, painted on the wall surface of, or erected and confined within the limits of an outside wall of any building or structure, which is supported by such wall or building, and which displays only one sign surface.