HomeMy WebLinkAbout71.41 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA AMENDING
SECTION 15-30.160 AND ADDING SECTION 15-30.200
PERTAINING TO VIOLATIONS OF SIGN REGULATIONS
AND REMOVAL OF ILLEGAL SIGNS ON PUBLIC
PROPERTY
The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby ordains as follows:
SECTION h Paragraphs (c) and (d) in Section 15-30.160 of the City Code are
repealed.
SECTION 2: A new Section 15-30.200 is added to Article 15-30 of the City
Code, to read as follows:
'~15-30.200 Violations; removal of illegal signs on public property
(a) Eaeh sign found to be in violation of any provision of this Article shall
constitute a separate violation of this Code.
(b) The Maintenance Director or his representative may remove any sign
located upon or affixed to any public property in violation of the provisions of this
Artiele, upon giving at least three days' prior written notice of such violation and
intended removal to the sign owner. If the sign owner cannot be ascertained or
found after reasonable effort to do so, the notice shall be posted upon the sign for a
period of at least three days prior to the removal of the sign.
(e) Notwithstanding Paragraph (b) of this Section or any other provision of
this Code, the Maintenance Director or his representative may summarily abate and
remove any sign located upon or affixed to any public property which eonstitutes an
immediate and substantial hazard to the public health or safety. The Maintenanee
Director shall promptly thereafter give written notlee of the removal to the sign
owner, if such owner can be ascertained or found, stating the loeation of the sign
and the procedure for retrieval thereof by the sign owner.
(d) Any sign removed by the Maintenance Director pursuant to Paragraph (b)
or (e) of this Seetion shall be retained by him for a period of at least ten days,
during which the sign owner may retrieve the sign upon payment of all removal costs
or an administrative fine in the amount of Ten Dollars, whiehever is greater. Any
person desiring to contest such payment may request a hearing before the City
Manager, who is authorized to waive the payment if he determines that the sign did
not violate any provisions of this Article. The decision of the City Manager shall be
final.
(e) Any sign not retrieved within the ten day period specified in Paragraph
(d) of this Section shall conclusively be deemed to have been abandoned by the
owner thereof and may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by the Maintenanee
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Director. The City shall have the right to recover from the owner of such sign all
removal and destruction costs.
(f) The enforcement of sign regulations pursuant to this Section shall be in
addition to any other rights and remedies available to the City under Chapter 3 of
this Code by reason of the same violation.
SECTION 3: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this
Ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid or
unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions
of this Ordinance. The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it
would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase' thereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses or phrases may be held invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4: This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty days after its
passage and adoption.
The above and foregoing Ordinance was regularly introduced and after the
waiting time required by law, was thereafter passed and adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Saratoga held on the 20th day of
~pril ., 1988, by the following vote:
AYES: CounciLm~oers Anderson, Clevenger, Hlava, Moyles and Mayor Peterson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ATTEST:
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Copy 0f 0rd]nance ~ which has bee~
CITY CLER~ ~ PuDlisbed acc0rdin~ t0 ~aw.
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