(A) Deactivation of animated signs. Any animated signs, except for time and temperature, even if legally erected prior to the adoption of this subchapter, shall be deactivated within 60 days from the effective date of this subchapter, without compensation. Chasing lights used as part of a holiday decoration shall not be affected by this division.
(B) Illegal and/or abandoned signs. Any illegal or abandoned advertising display or advertising structure shall be abated, without compensation, pursuant to the procedure set forth in Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code §§ 5499.1 et seq.
(C) Legal nonconforming signs. Any legal nonconforming sign shall be removed, without compensation, if the sign meets any of the following criteria:
(1) Any advertising display which has been more than 50% destroyed, and the destruction is other than facial copy replacement, and the display is not repaired within 30 days of the date of its destruction;
(2) Any advertising display whose owner, outside of a change of copy, requests permission to remodel, and remodels that advertising display; or expands or enlarges the building or intensifies land use upon which the advertising display is located, and the display is affected by the construction, enlargement, or remodeling, or the cost of construction, enlargement, or remodeling of the advertising display exceeds 50% of the cost of reconstruction of the building;
(3) Any advertising display whose owner seeks relocation thereof and relocates the advertising display;
(4) Any advertising display which is temporary;
(5) Any advertising display for which there has been an agreement between the advertising display owner and the city, for its removal as of any given date;
(6) Any advertising display which is or may become a danger to the public or is unsafe.
(7) All other nonconforming signs, except for abandoned signs, which are made nonconforming by the initial adoption of this subchapter shall be removed or made to conform within 15 years of June 1, 1989.
(D) Removal of nonconforming signs. All other nonconforming signs, first made nonconforming by the adoption of this amended subchapter (October, 1994) shall be removed or made to conform within 15 years from the effective date of this amended subchapter.
(E) Extension of time. Any sign owner, whether a sign user or a sign lessor or lessee, may seek an extension of time from the otherwise applicable amortization schedule pursuant to the provisions of § 153.332.
('65 Code, § 9-3.2412) (Ord. 445-C.S., passed 5-16-95)