(A) Depositing on street, sidewalk, or other public place. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street, or other public place within the county.
(B) Depositing in or on vehicles. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any vehicle. Provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, a handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it and to be responsible for disposing of it.
(C) Depositing on vacant private premises. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon any private premises that are temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant.
(D) Depositing on posted private premises. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill upon any private premises, if requested by anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on the premises, in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words: “No Trespassing”, “No Peddlers or Agents”, “No Advertisement”, or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants of the premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed, or to have any such handbills left upon their premises.
(E) Depositing on inhabited private premises.
(1) Generally. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon inhabited private premises, except by handing or transmitting it directly to the owner, occupant, or other person then present in or upon such private premises. Provided, however, that, in case of inhabited private premises that are not posted as provided in this section, such person, unless requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited private premises, if it is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent it from being blown or drifted about the premises or sidewalks, streets, or other places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
(2) Exemption for mail and newspapers. The provisions of division (E)(1) of this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor to newspapers (as defined herein), except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk or other public place or upon private property.
(Prior Code, §§ 50.010, 50.011) (Ord. 80-4, passed 3-12-1980; Ord. 2022-2, passed 3-24-2022) Penalty, see § 90.99