(a) No person shall deface any street, sidewalk, or public place by painting, printing, or otherwise marking or to place or to cause or permit to be placed upon any public street, sidewalk, or public place within the city or in any ditch, drain, or waterway along or adjacent thereto any ashes, cinders, earth, stone, lumber, wood, logs, machines, vehicles, conveyances, or other implements not lawfully parked thereon, or any other object or substance which obstructs or impedes travel thereon or the flow of water in the gutters or drains, or neglect or refuse to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned by such obstruction or defacing within 24 hours after such person has knowledge of such existence of such nuisance, or within 24 hours of service of notice thereof in writing from the Mayor or his or her agent.
(b) Upon conviction of any such offense specified in division (a) hereof, the person convicted shall, within 24 hours after such conviction, remove or abate the nuisance created contrary to the provisions of this section, and his or her failure to do so shall constitute a second offense against the provisions of this section. The continued failure or refusal of such convicted person to remove or abate such nuisance as provided herein shall constitute a separate, distinct, and additional offense for each successive 24-hour period of such failure or refusal.
(c) Any nuisance which arises by reason of any violation of this section may be abated in the manner provided for the abatement of nuisances in Article 1111.