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Text Amendment modifying TMC 1113.0906 Penalties and 1115 Violations, Penalties and Enforcement
Zoning & Planning Committee
1/8/2025
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Amending Toledo Municipal Code (TMC), Part Eleven, Subsections 1113.0906 Penalties and 1115 Violations, Penalties and Enforcement; and declaring an emergency.
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SUMMARY & BACKGROUND:
The request is a text amendment to modify Toledo Municipal Code (TMC) 1113.0906 Penalties and Chapter 1115 - Violations, Penalties, and Enforcement. The sign code, approved earlier this year, included enforcement language that conflicts with the general enforcement provisions in Chapter 1115. This amendment clarifies that Chapter 1115 takes precedent and includes minor amendments to assist with enforcement.
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NOW THEREFORE Be it ordained by the Council of the City of Toledo:
SECTION 1 That Toledo Municipal Code, Part Eleven, Subsection 1113.0906, which read as follows:
1113.0906 Penalty
A. No owner or operator shall fail to obey any order issued pursuant to this Chapter. No owner or operator shall cause, permit, allow, maintain or fail to abate a violation of this Chapter.
B. Whoever violates or fails to comply with any provisions of this Code or the owner or user of an unlawful sign or the owner of property upon which an unlawful sign is located shall be subject to for each and every violation or non-compliance be deemed guilty of a minor misdemeanor for a first offense. For any second offense within any twelve month period, such persons or organizations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
C. Every person concerned in the violation of or failure to comply with this Chapter, whether he directly commits the act or aids and abets the same, and whether present or absent, shall be proceeded against and held as principal. Provided, however, that the owner of property on which an unlawful sign is located, who is not also the owner or user of the unlawful sign, shall be subject to such...
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