Graffiti constitutes an obnoxious public nuisance. The city council finds that graffiti or other inscribed materials placed upon any permanent structure visible from any publicly owned property, is found to be obnoxious and constitutes a public nuisance. As such, the city may abate graffiti as a nuisance and recover its costs in abating the nuisance pursuant to Chapter 3.20 of this code. Such costs include courts costs, attorneys’ fees, costs of removal of the graffiti, costs of repair and replacement of defaced property, costs of administering and monitoring the participation of the defendant and his or her parents or guardians in a graffiti abatement program, and the law enforcement costs incurred by the city in identifying and apprehending the person who created, caused or committed the graffiti or other inscribed material on the publicly or privately owned real or personal property within the city.
(Ord. 790 § 19 (part), 1999)