503.01 RESTRICTIONS.

   (a)    Private Property. No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any building, vehicle, tree, post, fence, billboard or other structure or thing, on the private property of another, or paint, mark, write, print, impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement, the name of any commodity or thing or any trade mark, symbol or figure of any kind upon anything whatever, on the property of another, without first obtaining permission of the owner of such thing.

   (b)    Public Property. No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any kind upon any telegraph, telephone, railway or electric light pole within the City or upon any public building, vehicle, voting booth, flagging, curb, treelawn, walk, step, stone or sidewalk within the City. No person shall write, print, impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement of any kind upon any public building, voting booth, flagging, curb, treelawn, step, stone, sidewalk or other property of the City, or within the street lines of the City or over which the City or Council thereof has the care, custody or control, except as may be required by the laws of the State. This section does not apply to religious, educational, civic or political organizations which obtain the consent of Council for their advertising.

(Ord. 59-30. Passed 4-7-59.)

   (c)    Penalty. Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.