This may be helpful to know the definitions of sign types in Marion County, FL. Signage includes wall signs, commercial signs, monument signs, building signs, electric signs and more.
Accessory sign – A permanent ground or building sign that is permitted under this Code as incidental to an existing or proposed use of land.
Advertising – Sign copy intended to directly or indirectly promote the sale or use of a product, service, commodity, entertainment, or real or personal property.
Building sign – A sign displayed upon or attached to any part of the exterior of a building, including walls, windows, doors, parapets, marquees and roof slopes of 45 degrees or steeper.
Commercially developed parcel – A parcel of property on which there is at least one walled and roofed structure used, or designed to be used, for other than residential or agricultural purposes.
Copy – The linguistic or graphic content of a sign.
Electric sign – Any sign containing electric wiring.
Erect a sign – To construct, reconstruct, build, relocate, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw, or in any other way bring into being or establish a sign. It shall not include any of the foregoing activities when performed as an incident to a change of message or routine maintenance.
Ground sign – A sign that is supported by one or more columns, upright poles, or braces extended from the ground or from an object on the ground, or that is erected on the ground, where no part of the sign is attached to any part of a building.
Illuminated sign – A sign which contains a source of light or which is designed or arranged to reflect light from an artificial source including indirect lighting, neon, incandescent lights and backlighting.
Marquee – A structure projecting from and supported by a building which extends beyond the building line or property line and fully or partially covers a sidewalk, public entrance or other pedestrian way.
Multiple occupancy complex. A commercial occupancy, i.e. any occupancy other than residential or agricultural, consisting of a parcel of property, or parcel of contiguous properties, existing as a unified or coordinated project, with a building or buildings housing more than one occupant, or more than one business under one ownership.
Occupant (occupancy) – One who has certain legal rights to or control over the premises he occupies; the state of being an occupant.
Off-site sign – A sign that identifies or communicates a commercial or non-commercial message related to an activity conducted, or service rendered, or a commodity sold at a location or on a parcel other than where the sign is located, usually supported on metallic poles or a group of wooden poles.
On-site sign – A sign that identifies or communicates a commercial or non-commercial message related to an activity conducted, service rendered or a commodity sold at the location where the sign is to be installed.
Permanent – Designed, constructed and intended for more than short term use.
Portable sign – Any sign which is designed to be transported by trailer or on its own wheels, including such signs whose wheels have been removed and the remaining chassis or support structure converted to an A or T frame sign and anchored temporarily to the ground.
Roof line – A horizontal line intersecting the highest point or points of a roof.
Roof sign – A sign placed above the roof line of a building or on or against a roof slope of less than 45 degrees as measured from the vertical plane.
Sign face – The part of a sign that is or may be used for copy.
Sign face area or sign area – The area of any regular geometric shape which contains the entire surface area of a sign upon which copy may be placed.
Sign structure – Any construction used or designed to exclusively support a sign.
Temporary sign – A sign designed, constructed, and intended to be used on a short term basis.
Unit – That part of a multiple occupancy complex housing one occupant or use.
Vehicle sign – Any sign affixed to a vehicle.
Check back as the code does change from time to time.
