Title 18 - Unified Development Ordinance

 

18.440 Signs

18.440.180 Substitution; State and Federal Law; Severability

  1. A.
    Substitution of Speech. This Chapter is intended to regulate signs in a manner consistent with the speech freedoms of both the United States and Kansas Constitutions. This Chapter regulates only the sign location, structure and copy design and not sign content. No provision of this Chapter shall be construed to regulate or restrict sign content or message. Any sign authorized in this Chapter may include noncommercial copy in lieu of any other copy.
  2. B.
    State and Federal Law. As the City is subordinate to the laws of the federal government and the state of Kansas, this Chapter does not prohibit signs, sign locations, or sign characteristics authorized by an express requirement of state or federal law.
  3. C.
    Severability. The sections, subsections sentences and phrases of this Chapter are hereby declared to be severable; and if any section, subsection, sentence or phrase is declared unconstitutional or otherwise invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality or invalidity shall not affect any of the remaining sections, subsections, sentences or phrases of this Chapter.

(History: Ord. No. ZRR-3300 §19, 2020)

Effective on: 1/1/1901