(A) Throwing or distributing handbills in public places. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or on any sidewalk, street, or other public place within the city, or hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill in any public place; provided, that any person may hand out or distribute or sell to the receiver thereof, any noncommercial handbill to any person willing to accept it.
(B) Placing commercial and noncommercial handbills on vehicle.
(1) No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or on any vehicle.
(2) This division (B) shall not prohibit any person in any public place from handing out or distributing, without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it.
(C) Distributing handbills on streets, highways, and intersections. No person shall, in the course of distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills to occupants of vehicles temporarily stopped on municipal streets, highways, or intersections, distribute handbills if such actions obstruct any public street, highway, or intersection by hindering, impeding, or tending to hinder or impede the free and uninterrupted passage of vehicles, traffic, or pedestrians.
(D) Depositing commercial and noncommercial handbills on uninhabited or vacant premises. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or on any private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant:
(1) Where it is apparent that the property is unoccupied;
(2) Where it is apparent that a previous day’s distribution of handbills has not been removed; or
(3) Where the owner has not given his or her permission to do so.
(E) Distribution of commercial and noncommercial handbills at inhabited private premises.
(1) No person shall throw, deposit, or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or on private premises which are inhabited, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant, or other person then present in or on such private premises.
(2) Any person may place or deposit any noncommercial handbill in or on inhabited private premises which are not posted, as provided in division (F) below, unless requested by anyone on such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill in or on such inhabited private premises if such handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets, or other public places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
(3) This division (E) shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor to newspapers, except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements on any street, sidewalk, or other public place or on private property.
(F) Distributing handbills prohibited where premises properly posted. No person shall throw, deposit, or distribute any commercial or noncommercial handbill on private premises, if requested by anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on such 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 matter 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 on such premises.
(Prior Code, § 94.03) Penalty, see § 94.99