17.46.130 Abandoned signs and abatement thereof.
A. No person shall maintain or permit to be maintained on any premises owned or controlled by said person any sign which has been abandoned. Any such sign shall be promptly abated. Any sign which is located on property which becomes vacant for a period of six months or more and any sign which was erected for an occupant or business unrelated to the present occupant or their business and any sign which pertains to a time, event or purpose which no longer obtains shall be presumed to have been abandoned.
B. Unless some other form of abatement is approved by the community development director or designee in writing, abatement of abandoned signs shall be accomplished in the following manner:
1. Signs painted on buildings, walls, fences or structures shall be abated by removal of the paint constituting the sign or by painting over the sign in such a way that the sign shall not thereafter become visible.
2. Other types of signs may be abated by removal of the sign including its dependent structures and supports, unless the sign conforms to the provisions contained in this chapter, in which case all faces of the sign shall be screened from view in a manner satisfactory to the community development director or designee. (Ord. 2023-05 § 3 (Exh. A), 2023; Ord. 2020-07 § 2, 2020; Zoning Ordinance dated 7/94, 1994. Formerly 17.46.120)