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(a) No person shall tear down, remove, destroy, cover up, mutilate, obliterate or otherwise injure any proclamation or official notice, any sign or handbill, notice, poster or advertisement containing a notice of any meeting, lecture, theater, show, play or concert, or any public or private sale of property until after they have served the purpose for which they were put up. This section does not prevent any person owning or controlling billboards used for advertising purposes from changing or removing advertisements or notices which he or she may post thereon, or prohibit any owner from removing advertisements or notices placed or remaining on his or her property without his or her consent.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of defacing and removing signs, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. No. 1020-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)
(a) No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign or handbill or placard of any description upon any private building, or upon any tree, post, fence, billboard or any other structure or thing, the property of another, without permission of the occupant or owner of the same, nor paint, mark, write, print or impress, or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement or the name of any commodity or thing or any trademark, symbol or figure of any kind upon anything whatever, the property of another, without first obtaining permission of the owner of such thing.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of posting on private property without consent, a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. No. 1020-76. Passed 6-14-76, eff. 6-18-76)
(a) No person shall stick, post or attach any notice, advertisement, poster, sign, handbill, or placard of any kind or description on any telegraph, telephone, railway or electric light poles within the limits of the City, or on any bridge, public building, voting booth, flagging, curbstone, walk, step stone, or sidewalk, or write, print, or impress or in any manner attach any notice, advertisement, poster, sign, handbill, or placard of any kind or description on any public building, bridge, voting booth, flagging, curbstone, step stone, or sidewalk, the property of the City or within the street lines of the City, or over which the City has the care, custody, or control, except as may be required by the laws of the State or City ordinances. The prohibitions of this ordinance include the placing of building numbers on curbs.
(b) All notices, advertisements, posters, signs, handbills, or placards of any kind or description in violation of this section shall be removed by the department or division which has the care, custody, or control of the City property where the violation is found and the director of the appropriate department shall charge the responsible party fifty dollars ($50.00) per sign to cover the cost of removal. It shall be the duty and power of the directors of the departments and of the commissioners of the divisions of the City to carry out the mandate of the preceding sentence with regard to City property under their care, custody, or control.
(c) Whoever violates this section is guilty of unauthorized placing of notices or signs on public property, a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. No. 1001-06. Passed 6-12-06, eff. 6-16-06)
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