(A) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned for not more than thirty (30) days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed for each day during on or which a violation occurs or continues.
(B) Citations. If any sign or other device covered by this subchapter is, or is proposed to be, erected, constructed, altered, converted, or used in violation of any provision of this subchapter, the Codes Enforcement Officer shall issue a citation. Additionally, the city may seek an injunction for a continuing violation or take other appropriate action to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, alteration, conversion, or use to correct or abate such violation. Any violation of this subchapter shall be an offense, and the violator shall be subject to a fine of up to five hundred dollars ($500.00) per day.
(C) Dangerous and defective condition. No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained on any premises owned or controlled by that person any sign which is in a dangerous and defective condition. Any such sign shall be removed or repaired by the permittee of the sign, the owner of the premises, or as otherwise provided for in this subchapter.
(D) Noncompliance. No person shall erect on any premises owned or controlled by that person any sign which does not comply with the standards of this subchapter.
(E) Notice. The Codes Enforcement Officer shall give the permittee from one (1) to fourteen (14) calendar days written notice, based on the urgency of the particular situation and the practical considerations of completing measures to comport with the standards of this subchapter, to correct the deficiencies or to remove the sign which is in violation of this subchapter. If the permittee refuses to correct the deficiencies or remove the sign, the director will have the sign removed at the expense of the permittee and costs be placed a lien upon the real property.
(F) Public nuisance. Any violation of this subchapter is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(G) Separate violation. Each sign installed, created, erected or maintained in violation of this subchapter shall be considered a separate violation when applying the penalty portions herein.
(Ord. passed 1-27-87; Am. Ord. O-2019-20, passed 7-22-19)