Any WECS which fails to comply with any law or ordinance of the City, shall cease operating immediately upon receipt of notice of such noncompliance and shall be brought into compliance within thirty (30) days after receipt of such notice, or shall be dismantled. Any WECS which ceases to operate for any twelve (12) consecutive months shall be dismantled. In the event that the WECS is not dismantled within thirty (30) days after notice is served upon or mailed to the applicant’s aforesaid agent, the City shall be deemed to have been empowered and authorized by the applicant and owner to enter upon the premises on which such WECS is located without any prior or further notice, to dismantle such WECS, to dispose of such dismantled WECS in any manner the City deems convenient and to file a lien in the McHenry County Recorder of Deeds Office against the subject premises in the amount of the City’s costs associated with the dismantling and disposition of such WECS.
(1987 Code § 7-278)