(a) Detriment to Public Safety. When any sign becomes insecure, in danger of falling, or otherwise unsafe, or if any sign is installed, erected, or maintained in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter, the sign owner or the person maintaining the sign, upon written notice of the Building Official, must make such sign conform to this chapter or remove it, without delay in the case of immediate danger and in any case within not more than ten (10) days. If, within ten (10) days, the order is not complied with, the Building Official may remove such sign at the expense of the owner and assess the cost of the removal as a lien against the property upon which the sign was located.
(b) Detriment to Traffic Safety. Any sign which, by reason of its size, location, coloring, or manner of illumination (including, but not limited to, flashing or moving lights), constitutes a traffic hazard or a detriment to traffic safety by obstructing or distracting the vision of drivers or the visibility of any traffic sign or control device is prohibited. If such a sign is presently erected or maintained, the sign owner or the person maintaining the sign, upon written notice of the Building Official, must make such sign conform to this chapter or remove it, without delay in the case of immediate danger and in any case within not more than ten (10) days. If, within ten (10) days, the order is not complied with, the Building Official may remove such sign at the expense of the owner and assess the cost of the removal as a lien against the property upon which the sign was located.
(c) Unauthorized Posting, Painting, or Erection. No snipe sign, placard, poster, circular, cards, leaflets or other matter whatsoever may be posted, painted or in any way attached to any fence, wall, post, tree, sidewalk pavement, platform, pole, tower, curbstone, surface or other property by any person without the written consent of the its owner, or in or upon any public property, provided that this prohibition does not apply to any public officer or employee in the performance of a public duty or to a private person in giving a legal notice.
(d) Sign Structures without Signs. Any sign structure or frame no longer supporting or containing a sign is declared to be a public nuisance. The owner of the property where the sign is located must, within thirty (30) days of the removal of the information portion of the sign, either replace the entire information portion of the sign or remove the remaining components of the sign. If a sign structure is in violation of this provision, the Building Official may remove the sign at the expense of the owner after ten (10) days written notice and assess the cost of the removal as alien against the property upon which the sign was located. This subsection does not prevent the changing of information on a sign.
(e) Prohibited Sign Types.
(1) Roof signs. Existing roof signs may be ordered by the Building Superintendent to be reconstructed or removed as required in this chapter.
(2) Inflatable signs.
(3) Feather flag signs.
(4) People signs.
(Res. 2020-059A. Passed 4-20-20.)