A. Response To Complaints On Observation: Based upon information received from the public or upon police observation, City police shall investigate and identify graffiti. After the Police Department has verified the existence of graffiti, the City shall send a letter to the property owner by certified mail informing the property owner about the graffiti and requesting the property owner to remove the graffiti within a reasonable period of time, based upon consideration of weather conditions and other relevant factors. A copy of the letter shall be sent to the City Council. The Police Department shall verify whether the graffiti has been removed.
B. Timely Removal Required; Costs Assessed To Owner: If the Police Department finds that graffiti has not been removed within the time allotted, the City shall be contacted. The City Clerk shall schedule a public hearing and shall notify the affected property owner of the hearing date and the preliminary findings that graffiti exists on the owner's property, and that City Council may, after the hearing, order the removal of graffiti by either the property owner or the City's Public Works Department, and if said Department has to remove the graffiti, the costs will be assessed against the owner's property. (1998 Code)