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continued, except that the owner of property on which an unlawful billboard <br /> or billboard structure is located, who is not also the owner or user of the <br /> unlawful billboard or billboard structure, shall be subject to the <br /> penaltyonly if demand for removal or alteration of the unlawful billboard or <br /> billboard structure shall have been mailed to said owner at his last known <br /> address by registered mail, return receipt requested, and the demand has <br /> remained uncomplied with for more than thirty (30) days . <br /> 2. Criminal Penalty. The violation of or failure to <br /> comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance or the erection, use or <br /> display or the allowing of, the permitting of, or the suffering of the <br /> erection, use or display of any unlawful billboard or billboard structure is <br /> a misdemeanor; and upon conviction, the violator shall be punished by a fine <br /> of not more than one thousand dollars ($1 ,000) and ninety (90) days <br /> imprisonment and shall be required to remove the unlawful billboard or <br /> billboard structure or bring it into compliance. Each day or portion <br /> thereof upon which a violation occurs constitutes a separate offense. <br /> 3. Removal of Unlawful Billboard - Immediate and Serious <br /> Danger. <br /> Billboards or billboard structures which the <br /> Administrator finds upon public streets, sidewalks, rights-of-way or other <br /> public property, or which wheresoever located present an immediate and <br /> serious danger to the public because of their unsafe condition may be <br /> immediately removed by the Administrator without prior notice. The owner of <br /> the billboard or billboard structure, the user of the billboard or billboard <br /> structure, and the property owner on which the billboard or billboard <br /> structure is located shall be responsible to the City for all costs incurred <br /> by the City in the removal of the billboard or billboard structure. <br /> Section 9: SEVERABILITY. If any provision of this ordinance <br /> shall be declared unconstitutional or invalid by any court of competent <br /> jurisdiction, it shall be conclusively presumed that this ordinance would <br /> have been enacted without the provision so held unconstitutional or invalid <br /> and the remainder of this ordinance shall not be affected as a result of <br /> said part being held unconstitutional or invalid. <br /> -19- <br />