(a) Except as provided in this section and in Ohio R.C. 5515.04, no person shall place within the limits of the right-of-way or affix any sign, poster or advertisement to utility pole within the right-of-way of any public street, highway, alley or other public right-of-way in the City. No person, organization, corporation or group shall place within the limits of the public right-of-way, any object as determined by the Service-Safety Director to obscure site distance. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the erection and maintaining of notices of the existence and location of public utility facilities under or upon the public right-of-way and warnings against disturbing such facilities, or of notices that emergency or other public telephones or public facilities are available for users of the streets or highways at specified locations upon or near the highway.
(b) Whoever violates this section shall be guilty of a minor misdemeanor upon the first offense and a fourth degree misdemeanor upon a second or other subsequent offenses.
(Ord. 99-34. Passed 3-23-99.)