YAVAPAI COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING ORDINANCE Page 124 19. All signs shall be stable. Portable signs are permitted where indicated for Zoning Districts provided they are planted securely into the ground, weighted, or otherwise anchored to resist rolling, blowing, tipping over or otherwise moving from a safe location. 20. Signs deemed dangerous, abandoned, or in substantial violation of this Sign Code by the Land Use Specialist, shall require correction within thirty (30) days of official notification, or be subject to removal by the County, and the owner billed for the actual cost of removal pursuant to A.R.S. §11-268 and any Yavapai County Ordinance authorizing such billing for removal of signs and determining that dangerous, abandoned, or violating signs are included in the scope of the referenced statute. 21. All freestanding signs will comply with Section 540 (General District Provisions – Height Limits) (i.e., one foot (1’) setback for each foot in height shall be required). B. EXEMPT SIGNS: The following signs shall be exempt from obtaining permits and other provisions of this Ordinance provided they satisfy the following requirements or specifications: 1. Official notices authorized by a court, public body, or public safety official. 2. Directional, warning or information signs authorized by or consistent with Federal, State, County, or Municipal Authority. 3. Memorial plaques and building cornerstones when cut or carved into masonry surface or when made of incombustible material and made an integral part of the building or structure. 4. Commemorative symbols, plaques and historical tablets. 5. Political signs on private property, provided however, that such signs shall be erected no more than sixty (60) calendar days prior to the last day for casting ballots, and removed within ten (10) calendar days following the last day for casting ballots of the election to which they refer; and that the total sign area permitted for any individual sign shall not exceed thirty-two (32) square feet. 6. Flags, emblems, insignias and posters of any nation, state, international organization, political subdivision or other governmental agency; unlighted non-verbal religious symbols attached to a place of religious worship; and temporary displays for a maximum of twenty (20) days of a patriotic, religious, charitable, or civic character shall be exempt from the provisions of this section. However, if the height exceeds thirty feet (30’), such signs shall be subject to the approval of the Development Services Director. The preceding shall not be construed as to permit the use of such flags, insignias, etc. for the purpose of advertising or identifying a product or business. 7. Signs located within structures, including inside window signs intended to be seen from outside of the building. C. SPECIAL PURPOSE SIGNS: