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A. As used in this chapter, the following words have the following meanings:

BANNER SIGN: A strip of cloth or other flexible material on which a sign or message is painted calling attention to the town, its natural advantages, resources, enterprises, attractions, climate, facilities, businesses, and community.

DIRECTOR: The town's Director of Community Development, or such person's designee.

GATEWAY ENTRANCE MONUMENT: Has the meaning provided in section 9-1-5 of this Code.

PLACE (A SIGN): To install, place, display, locate, erect, or maintain a sign. The term also includes changing the copy or message on a sign.

PRIVATE SIGN: Any sign placed on Town owned property that is not owned by the town or another governmental entity.

SPECIAL EVENT: An event and/or activity: 1) sponsored entirely by the town or cosponsored (either financially or otherwise) by the town, or which the town determines to be beneficial to the town, either financially or otherwise; 2) generally of limited duration; 3) that may or may not involve an assembly of persons; and 4) that calls attention to the town, its natural advantages, resources, enterprises, attractions, climate, facilities, businesses, and community. A special event under this chapter may, but need not be, a special event for which a permit is issued by the town pursuant to title 4, chapter 13 of this Code.

TOWN OWNED PROPERTY: 1. Land or other property owned by the town;

2. Land or other property that the town holds a present right of possession and control; and

3. All public rights-of-way owned or controlled by the town, including, without limitation, the airspace above a public right-of-way to the height permitted by law.

TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE: A sign, signal, marking, or other device used to regulate, warn, or guide traffic, placed on, over, or adjacent to a street, highway, pedestrian facility, or shared use path by authority of a public agency having jurisdiction. (Ord. 1, Series 2017; amd. Ord. 3, Series 2019)

B. Where terms are not defined, they shall have their ordinary accepted meanings within the context that they are used. (Ord. 1, Series 2017)