(a) No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any private building, tree, post, fence, billboard or other structure or thing, the property of another, without permission of the occupant or owner of the same, nor paint, mark, write, print, 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 on which he or she desires to place such notice, advertisement, name, mark or figure. This provision shall not modify Village parking regulations applicable to signs.
(b) No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any kind or description upon any telegraph, telephone, railway or electric light pole within the Village or upon any public building, voting booth, flagging, curbstone, walk, step, stone or sidewalk, or write, print or impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement of any kind upon any public building, voting booth, flagging, curbstone, step, stone or sidewalk, the property of the Village, or within the street lines of the Village, or over which the Village or Council has the care, custody or control, except as such may be required by the laws of the State or the ordinances of the Village.
(c) Nothing contained in this section shall prohibit temporary signs advertising garage sales, private parties, real estate signs or political signs as may be otherwise permitted by Village ordinances.
(d) Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 698.02.
(Ord. 2000-16. Passed 3-8-00.)