No person shall tear down, remove, destroy, cover up, mutilate, obliterate or otherwise injure any proclamation or official notice, any sign or any handbill, notice, poster or advertisement containing a notice of any meeting, lecture, theater show, play, concert or any entertainment, or any public or private sale of property, which may be lawfully placed, posted or put up in the City, until after the same shall have served the purpose desired.
(1973 Code §117.07)