No person shall be permitted to give away, deposit, or otherwise distribute any sample package, parcel, box or other quantity of any nostrum, proprietary medicine, or other material of an alleged medicinal character or purporting to be a curative agency, by means of depositing or leaving the same in any hallway, private area, or yard, or on any doorstep or in any place in public way in the city.
(Prior code § 97-3)