§ 211-11. Violations and penalties and other enforcement.


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  • A. 
    Any owner who installs, operates or maintains a public pay telephone on, over or under any street or other inalienable property of the Town without a permit therefor shall be guilty of a municipal infraction and shall be subject to the fines as provided in Chapter 1, Article I, per day per public pay telephone. Any violation of any part of this chapter shall be considered a separate offense for which the Town shall impose the fine per violation, per day per public pay telephone.
    B. 
    The Official may also order the removal of a public pay telephone which is in violation of this chapter. If the owner fails to remove the public pay telephone within 15 days after the order, the Official may do so. The Official shall store the public pay telephone and, if the owner does not recover the public pay telephone within 30 days, the Official may dispose of it in a reasonably commercial manner. The owner shall be responsible for direct costs, storage costs and remediation costs, which costs shall be a lien against the real property of the owner, collectible in the same manner in which real estate taxes are collected.
    C. 
    The owner shall keep the public pay telephone free of graffiti and keep the public pay phone and the area of a two-foot radius around the public pay telephone free of trash and of snow and ice. A public pay telephone provider that has an operation and maintenance permit from the Town shall have five days from the date it receives a notice of violation for failure to maintain the public pay telephone in accordance with this section to cure the violation before monetary penalties are imposed in accordance with this section.