(a) If a commercial sign permit expires without renewal, or is canceled or if a sign is erected or maintained in violation of this subchapter, the owner of the sign or, if the department cannot after reasonable effort determine the identity or location of the sign owner, the land owner, on a written demand by the department, shall remove the sign at no cost to the state.
(b) If the sign owner, or land owner, does not remove the sign within 45 days of the day that the demand is sent, the department will remove the sign and will charge the sign owner or land owner, as appropriate, for the cost of removal, including the cost of any court proceedings.
(c) The department will rescind a removal demand if the department determines the demand was issued incorrectly.

Source Note: The provisions of this §21.198 adopted to be effective July 1, 2011, 36 TexReg 2418; amended to be effective April 19, 2012, 37 TexReg 2687; amended to be effective March 14, 2018, 43 TexReg 1446