There is hereby incorporated by reference under the provisions of K.S.A. 12-3009 through 12-3012, including any amendments thereto, for the purpose of regulating the placement, use, size and structural quality of outdoor signs and other advertising and identification devices together with their appurtenant and auxiliary apparatus within the City of Haven, Kansas, a certain published compilation of regulations in pamphlet form prepared by the Haven Planning Commission, at the direction of and pursuant to the authority of the City of Haven, Kansas, entitled “Sign Regulations of the City of Haven, Kansas” dated August 9th, 2011. No less than three copies of said Sign Regulations shall be marked or stamped “official copy” as incorporated by Ordinance No. 606, to which shall be attached a copy of said ordinance or this article and shall be filed with the City Clerk, to be open to inspection and available to the public at reasonable hours. Violations of sections of the “Sign Regulations of the City of Haven, Kansas” shall be cited as a violation of this article, and then the section or article number of said Sign Regulations violated.
(Ord. 606; Code 2019)
The owner or agent of signage by which a violation of any provision of this article has been committed or shall exist, or the agent, architect, building contractor or any other person who commits, takes part or assists in any violation or who maintains any signage by which such violation shall exist, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars. Each and every day that such violation continues may constitute a separate offense.
In case any signage is erected, constructed, reconstructed, altered, repaired, converted or maintained, or any signage is used in violation of this article, the appropriate authorities of the City of Haven, in addition to other remedies, may institute injunction, mandamus or other appropriate action or proceeding to prevent such unlawful erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, maintenance or use, or to correct or abate such violation.
(Ord. 606; Code 2019)