(A) No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be or is an imitation of, or resembles, an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, which attempts to direct the movement of traffic which projects any flashing or revolving beams of light, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal.
(B) No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit, upon any highway any traffic sign, signal, or device bearing thereon any commercial or other advertising.
(C) This section shall not prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information, and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(D) No sign or advertising shall be placed in a street right-of-way except official signs or devices placed by authority of this code or state law.
(E) Every such prohibited sign, signal, marking, or device is declared to be unlawful and a public nuisance, and the town is empowered to remove the same without notice.
(Prior Code, § 15-209) Penalty, see § 10.99