(a) No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the City. However, it shall not be unlawful on any sidewalk, street or public place within the City for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, any handbill to any person willing to accept it.
(b) No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon a vehicle. However, it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, a handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
(c) No person shall throw or deposit any handbill in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.
(d) No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by handling or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant or other person then present in or upon such private premises.
(e) The provisions of this section do not apply to:
(1) The distribution of mail by the United States or a commercial delivery service;
(2) Newspapers when such newspapers are delivered to a current subscriber and are placed on private premises in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public or private property or water; or,
(3) Notices hung on, or attached to, an exterior door (“door hangers”) of a residence or a business by a City employee related to a City service, or by an employee of a utility service which the property owner or occupant is a current customer, which shall include, but not be limited to being a customer of a City-licensed refuse contractor, providing notification related to that service.
(Ord. 22-95. Passed 7-18-95; Ord. 03-2021. Passed 3-2-21.)