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EXHIBIT A Sec. 24-316. Removal or repair of defacement of buildings, walls, fences and other structures. (c) This section shall direct that the community service, to the extent feasible, include the repair, restoration or replacement of any damage or defacement to property within the city, and may include clean-up, beautification, landscaping or other appropriate community service within the city. A designee of the city manager shall supervise the performance of any community service work required and to report thereon to the court imposing such requirement. At or before the time of sentencing, the court shall receive and consider any plan for making restitution or performing community service submitted by the defendant. The court shall also receive and consider the recommendations of the supervisor of community service in the city concerning the plan. (e) If the city seeks to clean or cover the defacement, it shall give notice to the owner and lessee, if known, of any private building or facility that has been defaced that, within 15 days of receipt of such notice, if the owner or lessee does not clean or cover the defacement , the city may clean or cover the defacement at the city's expense. or- Other- 8tFUW.___ rublie building, wall, f@n or- athef - -et-W-0 -00h Notwithstanding the requirements of subsections (a) -(el hereof, in accordance with Code of Virginia, § 15.2-908 the director of permits and inspections may undertake or contract for the removal or repair of the defacement of any public building, wall. fence, or other structure or any private building, wall, fence, or other structure where such defacement is visible from any public right-of-way if the property owner, after the city has provided fifteen days' written notice, fails to remove or repair the defacement. No notice to lessees shall be required under this subsection. The city's agents or employees shall have any and all immunity_ normally provided to an employee of the locality. For purposes of this subsection (f), the term "defacement" means the unauthorized application by any means of any writing, painting, drawing, etching, scratching, or marking of an inscription, word, mark, figure, or design of any type. If the defacement occurs on a public or private building, wall, fence, or other structure located on an unoccupied property, and the city, through its own agents or employees, removes or repairs the defacement after complying with the notice provisions of this subsection. the actual cost or expenses thereof shall be chargeable to and paid by the owners of such property and may be collected by the city as taxes are collected. Every charge authorized by this subsection with which the owner of any such property shall have been assessed and that remains unpaid shall constitute a lien against such property, ranking on a parity with liens for unpaid local real estate taxes and enforceable in the same manner as provided in articles 3 and 4 of chapter 39 of Code of Virginia, Title 58.1. The city may waive or release such liens in order to facilitate the sale of the property. Such liens may