Sec. 118.618. - Ownership; maintenance.

(a) The City will own all the rights to the art produced by the Art In Public Places program, subject to the provisions of the Visual Artists Act of 1990. All contracts with artists and all art purchases will require the Artist to waive the following restrictions: (1) Photographic reproduction rights (to be shared by artist and owner); (2) Right to remove/relocate art; (3) Right to repair art in case of emergency; (b) Artist will retain the copyright and the right to be notified if the work is to be destroyed or deaccessioned or radically repaired on a nonemergency basis. (c) City will retain ownership of proposal models or drawings of commissioned art. (d) Maintenance will be the responsibility of the City and will be funded by that portion of the trust fund which is allocated for maintenance and conservation and will be administered in cooperation with the Cultural Council based on a conservation evaluation plan. (Ord. 2023-20-E , § 4)