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Ordinance No. 2007- Page 11 2) Within five business days after receiving the appeal the city must name a person who is not an official or employee of the city to serve on the appeal panel. Within five business days after the city names its representative the city's representative must contact the sign owner's representative, and the two of them must appoint a third member to the panel who has no relationship to either party. 3) The appeal panel may develop its own rules of procedure, but it must hold a hearing within five business days after the third member is appointed. The city and the sign owner must be given the opportunity to present testimony, and the panel may hold the hearing, or a portion of it, at the sign location. The panel must issue its decision on what level of brightness is needed to meet the brightness standards within five business days after the hearing commences. The decision will be binding on both parties. c) All signs installed after (insert the effective date of this ordinance) that will have illumination by a means other than natural light must be equipped with a mechanism that automatically adjusts the brightness in response to ambient conditions. These signs must also be equipped with a means to immediately turn off the display or lighting if it malfunctions, and the sign owner or operator must immediately turn off the sign or lighting when notified by the city that it is not complying with the standards in this section. Section 8. A violation of this ordinance is subject to the penalties and provisions of Chapter XIII of the city code. Section 9. This ordinance is effective upon adoption. Adopted by the city council of the City of Minnetonka, Minnesota, on June 25, 2007. Janis A. Callison, Mayor ATTEST: The stricken language is deleted; the underlined language is inserted.