§ 7.22.00. Violations and penalties.

(a)

The acts enumerated in this section shall be a violation of this article and shall be subject to the enforcement remedies and penalties provided by this article, by other town codes, and by state law. Such remedies may be pursued simultaneously.

(b)

It shall be a violation to:

(1)

Install, create, erect or maintain any sign in a way that is inconsistent with any approved plan or permit governing such sign or the site on which the sign is located.

(2)

Install, create, erect or maintain any sign requiring a permit without having first obtained such permit.

(3)

Fail to remove any sign that is installed, created, erected or maintained in violation of this article or for which the sign permit has lapsed.

(4)

Install, erect, place, or maintain any sign contrary to the provisions of this article, including any sign or sign structure not allowed within the applicable zoning district.

(5)

Continue any such violation.

(c)

Each sign installed, created, erected or maintained in violation of this article shall be considered a separate violation, and each day of a continued violation shall be considered a separate violation.

(d)

Any violation of this article or any condition or requirement adopted pursuant to this article may be restrained, corrected, or abated, as the case may be, by injunction or other appropriate proceedings pursuant to law. The remedies of the town shall include but not be limited to the following:

(1)

Issuing a stop work order for any and all work on any signs on the same site.

(2)

Seeking an injunction or other order of restraint or abatement that requires the removal of the sign or the correction of the violation.

(3)

For a sign which poses an immediate danger to the public health or safety, taking such measures as are available to the town under the applicable provisions of this article for such circumstances.

(e)

The town's magistrate shall exercise jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of this article consistent with the power and authority conferred upon it by general Florida law and applicable ordinance of the board.

(f)

It shall be unlawful to knowingly provide false or fraudulent information to any official of the town charged with the implementation and enforcement of this article for the purposes of inducing the official to take or refrain from taking any particular action or making any particular determination under its terms and provisions. A person violating the provisions of this subsection shall be guilty of an offense that, pursuant to F.S. § 166.0145, and any successor thereto, shall be prosecuted in the same manner as misdemeanors are prosecuted, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or by imprisonment [in the county jail], not to exceed 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. No. 01-18, § 1(Exh. A), 1-2-2018)