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r Section 10 LEGAL NON-CONFORMING SIGNS Sec. 10.1. Legal Non-Conforming Signs (a) Notification of Non-Conformity, After the enactment of this Code, the Administrator shal" as soon as practicable, survey the Cily or signs which do not conform to the require- ments of this Code. Upon determination that a sign is non-conforming, the Administrator shall use reasonable efforts to so notify either personally or in writing the user or owner of the property on which the sign is located of the following: (i) the sign's non-conformity; and (ji) whether the sign is eligible for characterization either as legal non-conforming or unlawful. Failing determination 01 the sign owner, user, or Owner of the property on which the sign is located, the notice m3Y be affixed in a conspicuous place to the sign or to the business premises with which the sign is associated. (b) Signs Eligible for Characterization as "Legal Non-Conforming." Any sign located within the city limits on the date of adoption of this Code, or iocated in an area annexed to the city thereatter, which does not conform with the provisions of this Code, is eligible tar char- acterization as a "legal non-conforming" sign and is permitted, provided it also meets the tollowing requirements: (1) The sign was covered by a sign permit or variance on the date of adoption of this Code if One was required under applicable law; or (2) if no sign permit was required under applicable law for the sign in question, the sign was in aJl respects in compliance with applicable law on the date of adoption of this Code, (c) Loss of Legal Non-Conforming Status. A iegal non-conforming sign shall immediately iose its legal non-conforming designation if; (1) the sign is altered in any way in structure or copy (except for changeable copy signs and normal maintenance), which tends to or makes the sign less in compliance with the requirements of this Code than it was before the alteration; or (2) the sign ;s relocated to a position making it less in compliance with the requirements of this Code; or (3) the sign is repiaced; or (4) on the happening of anyone of (1), (2, Or (3) the sign shall be immediately brought into compliance with this Code with a new permit secured therefor, or shall be re- moved. Sec, 10.2, Legal Non-Conforming Sign Maintenance and Repair Nothing in this Section shall relieve the owner or user of a legal non-conforming sign or owner of the property on which the legal non-conlorming sign is iocated trom the provisions of this Code regarding safety, maintenance and repair of signs, contained in this Code, provided, how- ever, that any repainting, cleaning and other normal maintenance or repair of the sign or sign structure shali not modify the sign structure or copy in any way which makes it more non-con- forming or the sign may lose its legal non-conforming status. 45