07/22/2003 Ordinances 8829
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ORDINANCE NO. 8829
An ordinance to place a temporary moratorium on commercial signs; to repeal
any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to provide for publication and the
effective date ofthis ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA, that:
SECTION 1. No person or business entity shall erect a commercial sign off of the
site of the business for which the sign is advertising from the date at which this ordinance takes
effect until January 1,2004. For the purposes of this ordinance, the term "commercial sign" shall
mean any device composed of one or more letters, words, pictures, figures, characters, symbols
or emblems, or any combination or grouping thereof which prefigures, typifies or represents one
or more ideas for the goods and services of any business.
SECTION 2. Any ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith be, and
hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after its
passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: July 22,2003.
, Mayor
Attest:
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RaNae Edwards, City Clerk
Approved as to Form a
July 17, 2003 a