ORDER approving second reading and adoption of the amended ordinance of the Harrison County Board of Supervisors regulating the location of off-premises outdoor advertising signs, including digital display signs, along highways and roadways outside municipalities, and within Harrison County, and for related purposes. Electronic message boards are prohibited No sign shall be permitted which is animated by means of flashing, scintillating, blinking or traveling lights. Digital display sign faces shall be allowed, subject to the following provisions: (1) There shall be no effects of movement, animation, scrolling, flashing, scintillation or similar effects and shall display only static images. (2) The static display time for each message shall be a minimum of eight (8) seconds. (3) The time to completely change from one message to the next is a maximum of two (2) seconds and shall not use fading, rolling, window shading, dissolving, or similar effects as part of the change. (4) All such signs shall have installed light monitors, and shall at all times allow such monitors to automatically adjust the brightness level of the sign based on ambient light conditions. In addition, maximum brightness levels for said sign shall not exceed five thousand five hundred (5,500) nits from dawn to dusk, during daylight hours, and one thousand (1,000) nits from dusk to dawn, nighttime hours. (5) Any digital display sign face or similar such sign that malfunctions, fails, or ceases to operate in its usual or normal programmed manner, causing motion, movement, flashing or any similar effects, shall have a default mechanism freezing said sign if any such malfunction occurs.

Committee

Zoning

Introduced

May 6, 2024

On agenda

May 13, 2024

Passed

May 13, 2024