In the event the person or persons responsible for the graffiti are convicted and the court orders the offender to pay restitution for the cost of the cleanup, and the property owner or the city have expended funds to clean up the graffiti, the restitution will be directed to the property owner or the city in the amounts that they expended as reimbursement for the cost of the cleanup.
(2001 Code, § 2020.19)