Animated signs, intensely lighted signs, and digital display sign faces.
Gulfport Code of Ordinances § 9-93
in effectSec. 9-93. - Animated signs, intensely lighted signs, and digital display sign faces.
(a) No sign shall be permitted which is animated by means of flashing, scintillating, blinking or traveling lights.
(b) 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.
(Ord. No. 1764, § 5.1, 3-17-87; Ord. No. 2566, § 7, 11-6-07; Ord. No. 2686, § 10, 7-6-10)
Source: City of Gulfport, Mississippi, Code of Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/ms/gulfport/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=PTIICOOR_CH9PLDE_ARTIVSI_S9-93ANSIINLISIDIDISIFAFetched: 11/1/2026