§ 17.01.1124. Illegal and abandoned signs.

A.

An illegal or abandoned sign shall mean any of the following:

1.

Any sign described in Section 17.01.1109(A)(1);

2.

A sign that is otherwise a danger to the public or is unsafe;

3.

A sign that is a traffic hazard;

4.

Any sign listed under Section 17.01.1112.

B.

Illegal and abandoned signs located within the city and existing as of the date of the adoption of this ordinance shall be inventoried and identified for potential abatement as provided by Section 5491.1 of the California Business and Professions Code. This inventory and identification must commence within one hundred twenty days from the date of adoption of the ordinance.

C.

Any applicable amortization schedule for the ordinance shall not expire until at least six months after the date on which the city confirms the continuing need for the ordinance to take effect.

D.

Upon the completion of the required identification and inventory, the city shall, at a public hearing, consider whether there is a need for the ordinance to take effect.

E.

The city may impose reasonable fees upon all owners or lessees of the illegal signs for the purpose of covering its actual cost of inventorying and identifying illegal and abandoned signs. The actual cost shall be fixed upon a determination of the total estimated reasonable costs. The amount of that cost and the fee to be charged is exclusively within the discretion of the city and shall be set forth by resolution.

F.

Illegal or abandoned signs located within the city are to be declared by the city council, by resolution, as public nuisances and to be abated in accordance with this Code.

G.

The notice shall be substantially in the following form:

NOTICE TO REMOVE ILLEGAL
ADVERTISING DISPLAY

Notice is hereby given that on the ___ day of ________, 20___, the City Council of the City of Calexico adopted Resolution Number ___ declaring that an illegal advertising display is located upon or in front of this property which constitutes a public nuisance and must be abated by the removal of the illegal display. Otherwise, it will be removed, and the nuisance abated by the City. The cost of removal will be assessed upon the property from or in front of which the display is removed and will constitute a lien upon the property until paid. Reference is hereby made to the resolution for further [p]articulars. A copy of this resolution is on file in the office of the City Clerk.

All property owners having any objection to the proposed removal of the display are hereby notified to attend a meeting of the City Council of the City of Calexico to be held (give date, time and place), when their objections will be heard and given due consideration.

Dated this ___ day of ________, 20___.

Title

City of Calexico

(Ord. No. 1121, § 5, 8-17-10)