Charlotte County issues political sign regulations reminder

Posted by Mark Chapman on July 10th, 2012 at 2:10 pm

The Code Com­pli­ance and Zon­ing Divi­sions of the Char­lotte County Com­mu­nity Devel­op­ment Depart­ment reminds 2012 elec­tion can­di­dates and their sup­port­ers of the reg­u­la­tions in effect regard­ing polit­i­cal signs.

Char­lotte County Code Sec­tion 3−9−95, specif­i­cally 1.1.10 States the following:

• • (D)(1). Said signs shall be erected not ear­lier that forty-five (45) days prior to the pri­mary elec­tion day and shall be removed within fif­teen (15) days after the ear­li­est of the fol­low­ing events: (a) with­drawal of the can­di­date or mea­sure, (b) the can­di­date or mea­sure hav­ing been elim­i­nated as a can­di­date or mea­sure, or © the date of the gen­eral election.
• • (D)(2). Only one (1) sign per can­di­date or mea­sure is per­mit­ted on any one (1) lot, par­cel or tract of land. No elec­tion sign shall exceed thirty-two (32) square feet in area or six (6) feet in height. Said sign shall not be erected in such a man­ner as to con­sti­tute a roof sign.
• • (D)(3). Pur­suant to F.S. sec­tion 106.1435(3), no such sign shall be erected, posted, painted, tacked, nailed or oth­er­wise dis­played, placed or located within, on or above any state or county right-of-way. Upon a deter­mi­na­tion by the county that a vio­la­tion of this restric­tion exists at one (1) or more loca­tions, the signs may be imme­di­ately removed or be caused to be removed by the county.
• • (D)(4). Upon a deter­mi­na­tion by the county of any vio­la­tion of this exemp­tion, other than addressed above in 3., the affected can­di­date or sign owner, if deter­minable, will be con­tacted and advised of the vio­la­tion. The can­di­date or sign owner will have no more than twenty-four (24) hours to remove the sign or cause the sign to com­ply with the require­ments of this article.
• • (D)(5). The affected can­di­date or sign owner, if deter­minable, will then be noti­fied of said removal. Any elec­tion signs removed by the county shall be stored for five (5) busi­ness days and will be returned upon pay­ment of a removal and stor­age fee of twenty dol­lars ($20.00) per sign. Elec­tion signs not picked up within this period shall be discarded.

Funds col­lected shall be deposited into the gen­eral rev­enues of the county. All signs posted on pri­vate prop­erty in con­for­mance with the above stan­dards must have the con­sent of the prop­erty owner.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact Erin Mullen-Travis, licens­ing and code com­pli­ance man­ager, at 941−623−1007, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon­day through Friday.

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