ARTICLE IV. - ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT


Sec. 33.01-40. - General.

(a)

It shall be the duty of the department of codes compliance to enforce this ordinance by receiving applications and issuing permits where applicable, as required by this chapter, and by making the necessary inspections to ensure compliance with this chapter.

(b)

The director of codes compliance may revoke a permit issued under the provisions of this chapter for reasons of misrepresentation or false statement which is made knowingly or unknowingly, as to a material and relevant fact as to the plans or the premises upon which a permit was based.

(Ord. No. 4308-92)

Sec. 33.01-41. - Notice of order to abate violations of chapter; removal of illegal and prohibited signs.

(a)

The director of codes compliance and any person assigned to the department of codes compliance who has been appointed as a special conservator of the peace and has been given the duty to enforce the regulations set forth in this chapter shall have the authority to serve a written notice of violation and to order the abatement of such violation. Except in emergencies, such notice and order shall provide for a minimum three-day period within which violations are to be abated. Such director of codes compliance and special conservator of the peace are each hereby granted the authority to issue a summons to the general district court to any person in the city who shall fail to obey a lawful order contained in such notice of violation.

(b)

Enforcement of this chapter shall specifically include the ability to order removal of illegal or prohibited signs. For purposes of removal, the definition of sign shall include all sign embellishments and structures designed specifically to support the sign.

(Ord. No. 4308-92; Ord. No. 4605-94)

Secs. 33.01-42—33.01-44. - Reserved.