(a) In the event any newsrack installed pursuant to this article does not contain the publication specified in the application within a period of thirty (30) days after the release of the current issue, or if no publication is in the newsrack for a period of more than thirty (30) consecutive days, the Public Works Department may deem the newsrack abandoned and may remove the newsrack from the public right-of-way in accordance with the procedures set out in Sections 7-2.1308 through 7-2.1310.
(b) In the event a permittee of a newsrack, owned by the permittee, desires to voluntarily abandon a newsrack location, such permittee shall notify the Public Works Director in writing of the date of the proposed removal thirty (30) days prior to the newsrack’s removal and the permittee shall completely remove the newsrack and mount on the date set forth in such notice. In addition the permittee shall restore the sidewalk to good and safe condition leaving no hole or projection in the sidewalk and using the same type and quality of construction material as that which exists at the surface of the abutting sidewalk.
(§ 2, Ord. 1312-NS, eff. March 16, 1998)