(a) No request for a hearing before the Village Administrator or his or her designee shall be accepted for filing unless the owner, at the time of filing the request, pays a fee of $50 to partially compensate the village for the direct and indirect expenditures, costs, and extra work associated by the filing and prosecution of the hearing. No portion of such filing fee shall be refunded whatever the outcome of the hearing.
(b) At the hearing requested by the owner of the premises, the owner shall be entitled to present evidence and argue that his or her property does not contain graffiti and address any other issue which pertains to the abatement proceeding. The determination of the Village Administrator after the hearing shall be final. After the hearing, if the Village Administrator determines that the premises contains graffiti, the Village Administrator may order that the graffiti be abated. Before ordering such abatement, the Village Administrator shall give final written notice (“abatement order”) served in accordance with § 680.06 that, unless the graffiti is removed within five calendar days from the date of the final notice, the village shall enter upon the premises and cause the removal, painting over or such other eradication of the graffiti as the Village Administrator determines appropriate.
(Ord. 97-13, passed 4-15-1997)