(A) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any public way any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device, and no person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any public way any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to public ways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(B) Every prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the Superintendent of Streets is hereby empowered to and shall remove the same or cause it to be removed without notice.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-5) Penalty, see § 70.99