No person shall erect, permit, maintain or cause to be erected or maintained, any sign, billboard, post or structure of any kind, upon any portion of any public street or alley, including those portions of the street commonly known as the parkway or sidewalk, within the city; provided, however, that, this prohibition shall not apply to any overhead sign, canopy marquee or similar device, the lowest portion of which shall be not less than nine feet above the surface of the street, sidewalk or parkway, as the case may be; and, provided further that, this prohibition shall not apply to any poles or other equipment owned or operated by any public utility or to traffic-control devices or signs erected by the order of the state, the county or the city.
(Prior Code, § 97.090) (Ord, 1604, passed 7-12-1948; Ord. 2015-033, passed 11-10-2015) Penalty, see § 10.99