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Sign Ordinance
CITY OF EDEN PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE 78-12
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.152 AND PROVIDING
FOR THE REGULATION AND LICENSING OF ADVERTISING SIGNS
The City Council of the City of Eden Prairie does ordain:
Section 1. Section 5, Subd. 1. is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following:
Section5. Advertising Sign Violations-Removals
Subd. 1. ) Except as provided below, if the City Manager or his
designated representative shall find that any advertising
sign regulated by this ordinance has been erected or
maintained in any manner inconsistent with the provisions
of this ordinance or if any advertising sign has been
erected without first obtaining a permit to do so or is
unlicensed, he shall give written notice of such
violation to the advertising sign owner cr installer
and/or the owner of the property upon which the
advertising sign is erected. If the advertising sign
owner or installer or property owner fail to remove
or alter the advertising sign or to secure the required
permit or license so as to comply with the provisions
set forth in this ordinance within thirty call endar days
following receipt of said notice: +
a) . such sign shall be deemed to be a nuisance
and may be abated by the City proceedings
taken under Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 429,
and the cost abatement, including adminis7
tration expenses, may be levied as a special
assessment against the property upon which the Y
sign is located; or
b) . such permittee or owner may be prosecuted for
violating this ordinance and if convicted shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a
fine of not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for
a period of not exceeding 90 days. Each period
of thirty days within which the sign is not removed
or altered shall be deemed to constitute another
violation of this ordinance and punishable as a
misdemeanor hereunder.
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Section 2. Section 5 of Ordinance 152 is hereby amended by adding
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thereto the following Subdivision:
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Subd. 5. ) A lawful sign on the effective date of the adoption
of Ordinance No.152 or of amendments thereto that does z
not conform to the provisions therein shall be regarded
as a nonconforming sign. Such signs may be continued
in use when properly and safely maintained for a period
of six years from the date of the enactment of this
Ordinance or for a period of six years from the enact-
ment of an amendment which first causes a sign to
become nonconforming. At the end of the six years they
shall be made to conform with the provisions of this
ordinance or such amendment or they shall be removed
by the owner.
FIRST READ at a regular Council meeting on March 21 , 1976 and
finally read and adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the
Council of said City of the 4 day of April 1978.
fgang P, nze , Mayor
ATTEST:
John Fra ity Clerk SEAL
Published in the Eden Prairie News on the day of 1978.
Affidavit of Publication
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t:eaarotl ar�'.tL•I redan prat all the time herein stated has been the publisher and printer of the newspaper known as Eden Prairie News and has full
knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1)Said newspaper is painted in the English language in newspaper format
'a • ` and r column and sheet form equivalent in printed space to at least 900 square inches. (2)Said newspaper is a weekly
and is distributed at least once a week.(5)Said news paper has 50%of its news columns devoted to news of local interest
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