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Sat Oct 18, 9:36 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials want to terminate a giant mural of California Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger that sprang up on the side of a building a week after the action star won the state's Oct. 7 recall election.
On Thursday, the city attorney charged the building's owner with failing to get a permit for the huge ad touting the DVD release of "Terminator 3," the film Schwarzenegger was promoting when he announced his surprise run for governor.
If convicted, owner Robert Lusk Davis faces up to up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for each of six counts.
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, a Democrat who opposed the recall, said the apparent political implications of the case were coincidental.
Davis has been jousting with the city since May, when he replaced a 1996 city-approved mural for Universal Studio's "Jurassic Park" with an ad for "Shrek 4D," an attraction at Universal's Hollywood theme park.
The green monster came down after Davis, who is no relation to outgoing Gov. Gray Davis, lost an appeal to the city's planning commission in August, and the Terminator rose in its place.
The mural, on Cahuenga Blvd. in Studio City, is about 40 feet high and about 100 feet wide.
"The original mural was permitted to us by the city in 1996," Davis said. "Based on that permit we believe we are now and have always been properly permitted."
Davis said he would take the case to court before taking down the Terminator.
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