(A) License required. No person shall post bills, post signs for advertising purposes or distribute handbills or advertising material of any kind without first obtaining a license permitting the same.
(B) Fees.
(1) Each applicant for such a license shall pay the following fees:
License Term | Fee |
One year | $60.00 |
Six months | $35.00 |
One month | $10.00 |
One week | $ 7.50 |
One day | $ 5.00 |
(2) These fees are hereby declared to be the reasonable expense incident to the cost of police supervision over the distribution of bills and posting of signs, and the like, referenced in division (A) above.
(C) Posting on poles, trees, public buildings. No person licensed under the provisions of this section shall post or tack any handbill or other advertising matter on poles or trees or in public buildings.
(D) Scattering handbills. No person licensed under the provisions of this section shall distribute handbills and other advertising matter of any kind so that such handbills and advertising matter may be blown upon or scattered over the streets and ways of the village. No licensee shall distribute handbills and other advertising matter of any kind in such a manner so as to pose a threat to public safety or create a hazard. No licensee shall place any such advertising matter in any private mailboxes.
(E) Exemption of local merchants. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize the Village Manager to demand and receive a license fee from merchants of this village for advertising for their own business, but such advertising done by such merchants shall be subject to divisions (C) and (D) of this section.
(F) Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 798-08, passed 5-1-08)