§ 30-504.1. Maintenance and removal of signs.

(a)

All signs shall be constructed and mounted in compliance with the Virginia Uniform Statewide Building Code.

(b)

All signs and components thereof shall be maintained in good repair and in a safe, neat and clean condition.

(c)

The building official may cause to have removed or repaired immediately without written notice any sign which, in his opinion, has become insecure, in danger of falling, or otherwise unsafe, and, as such, presents an immediate threat to the safety of the public. If such action is necessary to render a sign safe, the cost of such emergency removal or repair shall be at the expense of the owner or lessee thereof.

(d)

Not including any off-premises signs permitted pursuant to this article, the owner of any sign used to attract attention to a commercial use, product, service, or activity and located on a lot on which the use or business has ceased operating shall, within 60 days of the cessation of use or business operation, replace the sign face with a blank face until such time as a use or business has resumed operating on the lot.

(e)

Sign condition, safety hazard, nuisance abatement, and abandonment.

(1)

Any sign which becomes a safety hazard or which is not kept in a reasonably good state of repair shall be put in a safe and good state of repair within 30 days of a written notice to the owner and permit holder.

(2)

Any sign which constitutes a nuisance may be abated by the City under the requirements of Code of Virginia, §§ 15.2-900, 15.2-906, or 15.2-1115, as applicable.

(Ord. No. 2017-149, § 2, 9-11-2017)

(Ord. No. 2017-149, § 2, 9-11-2017)