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225 ILCS 440/10

(225 ILCS 440/10) (from Ch. 121, par. 510)

Sec. 10.

The following signs are unlawful and a public nuisance:

(a) Signs erected after the effective date of this Act in violation
of this Act;

(b) Signs not registered in accordance with this Act or in accordance
with the regulations established by the Department;

(c) Signs without valid permits, as required by this Act or by regulations
established by the Department.

Each sign declared by this Section to be unlawful and a public
nuisance shall be removed or brought into compliance with this Act by the
owner, without compensation, within 30 days after receipt of notice by
certified mail from the Department, such notice period to be computed from
the date of mailing.  If the unlawful sign is affixed to a motor vehicle
or a trailer or other vehicle capable of being propelled by a motor vehicle,
it shall be removed by the owner, without compensation, within 24 hours
after verbal notice by the Department.  Any signs not so removed by the
owners or any such signs which are removed and re-erected illegally by the
owners shall become the property of the State and shall be removed and disposed
of by the Department or may be painted over by the Department.  The Department
is also granted authority to enter upon private property for these purposes.
If the name and address of the owner of the sign cannot be ascertained from
the records of the Department or from a visual inspection of the sign foregoing
notice provisions are not required and the Department shall take
immediate action to remove or paint over the sign.

(Source: P.A. 79-1009.)