A. The mayor, city attorney, or administrative hearing examiner shall be empowered to institute any appropriate action or proceeding in any case where any sign is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted or maintained, or in any case where any sign is used in violation of any city ordinance, to accomplish the following purposes:
1. To prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, conversion, maintenance or use;
2. To restrain, to correct or abate such violation; and
3. To abate and remove unsafe or dangerous signs. If an unsafe or dangerous sign is not repaired or made safe within ten (10) working days after giving notice as provided in subsection B of this section, the community development director may at once abate and remove the sign, and the person having charge, control or benefit of any such sign shall pay to the city costs incurred in such removal within thirty (30) calendar days after written notice of the costs is mailed to such person.
B. "Notice by the city" shall mean written notice sent by certified mail to persons having charge or control or benefit of any sign found by the city to be unsafe. (Ord. 2012-15, 9-20-2012)