Whenever the Zoning Inspector shall find any service station to be abandoned within the meaning of Section 1305.11, he shall give notice, by certified mail with return receipt requested addressed to the owner of record of the premises at his last known address or to the address to which tax bills are sent, to abate the abandoned condition within 60 days, either by placing the station in operation, adapting and using the building for another permitted business use, or by razing the service station structure, removing the pumps and signs, and by removing the underground storage tanks and filling the depression for which the tanks have been removed with materials prescribed by the Zoning Inspector to the grade level of the lot; provided that if the station is in operation at the time notice is given, and remains in operation for 90 consecutive days thereafter, the provisions of this section shall not apply; and provided, further, that if there should be declared a national emergency which would curtail the operation of motor vehicles, or if Council should determine that there exists a state of general economic depression, the provisions of this section shall not apply. (Ord. 2013-33. Passed 6-4-13.)