§ 132.06 GRAFFITI REMOVAL; NOTICE AND PROCEDURES.
   (A)   The person-in-charge and/or owner of property shall remove graffiti from such property within ten days of the graffiti’s appearance.
   (B)   Upon determination by the Enforcement Officer that graffiti nuisance exists on property, the Officer shall cause to be mailed a graffiti nuisance property warning notice to the person-in-charge and/or owner, if different, at the address shown on the county tax records.
   (C)   The notice shall contain:
      (1)   A statement that the property has been identified as a potential graffiti nuisance property;
      (2)   A statement that the person may request a hardship or extension of time in which to remove the graffiti by filing a written request with the Police Chief within ten days of the date of the warning notice. For the purpose of this division (C), HARDSHIP includes, but is not limited to, serious illness or disability, inclement weather, or other circumstances that prevent removal of the graffiti within ten days; and
      (3)   A statement that unless either the graffiti is removed or a hardship requested within the time specified in the notice, the property may be declared a nuisance and subject to abatement by the city and civil penalties imposed.
   (D)   If the graffiti is not removed within the time specified in the notice and/or a hardship no longer applies, the property shall be declared a nuisance and abated pursuant to § 91.050.
(Prior Code, § 5.180) (Ord. 2008-03, passed 5-27-2008; Ord. 2016-13, passed 7-11-2016)