Article VI — Enforcement—Removal

All departments, officials and public employees of the city shall conform to the provisions of this chapter and shall issue no permit, certificate or license for uses or purposes in conflict with the provisions of this chapter; and any such permit, certificate or license issued in conflict with the provisions of this chapter shall be null and void.

Any sign erected, constructed, altered, enlarged or maintained contrary to the provisions of this chapter shall be and the same is declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance; and, the city attorney of the city shall, upon order of the City Council, immediately commence action or proceedings for the abatement and removal and enjoinment thereof in the manner provided by law, and shall take such other steps and shall apply to such courts as may have jurisdiction to grant such relief as will abate and remove such sign and restrain and enjoin any person from setting up, erecting, maintaining or using any such sign. The remedies provided for herein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.

Any person, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating or causing the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punishable as provided in Section 1.12.010. (Prior code § 22.9)

The director of community development shall remove any sign

• (1) Without giving notice, if the sign:

  • (A) Was erected in violation of the provisions of this chapter upon any property belonging to the Federal Government, state of California, county of San Mateo, city of Menlo Park, any special purpose district, or any public utility,

  • (B) Is found by the director to be unsafe and an immediate peril to persons or property;

• (2) Upon the expiration of four days' written notice to remove or alter the sign given to the sign permittee or to the owner, or other person having the beneficial use of the building, structure or land upon which the sign is located and who has failed to comply with the order within said period, if the sign:

  • (A) No longer advertises a bona fide business conducted or a product available for purchase by the public on the property upon which the sign is located, or

  • (B) Has been constructed, erected, altered, relocated, changed or modified, or is being maintained in violation of the provisions of this chapter.

• (Ord. 517 Art. II (part), 1971; Prior code § 22.10(a))

The actual cost of removing or altering any sign to comply with this chapter incurred shall be paid to the city by the person to whom a sign permit was issued, or in the absence of a permit, then by the owner of the building, structure, or property upon which the sign is erected. The city

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City of Menlo Park, CA

MENLO PARK CODE

§ 16.92.240

§ 16.92.240

may recover the cost of the abatement in the same manner and pursuant to the same procedures provided for in Chapter 8.04 for the recovery of costs of the abatement of nuisances. (Ord. 517 Art. II (part), 1971; Prior code § 22.10(b))

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