(A) It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, corporation or corporations, partnership, organization, society, company, or any agent thereof to place, cause to be placed, or suffer or permit to be placed any billboard, display, advertising sign, unsightly circular, advertisement, or sign on any public property of the town or in or upon any street, alley, or highway within the corporate limits of the town without first securing the consent of the Town Council to so place or suffer or permit to be placed that billboard, display, advertising sign, unsightly circular, advertisement, or sign.
(B) Any person or persons, corporation or corporations, partnership, organization, society, company, or agent thereof that violates the provisions of this section commits a class E ordinance violation, and a judgment, with the cost of prosecution, and all incurred fees, including postage, shall be entered against the violator. Each sign collected by the Town Marshal or the Department of Planning’s Code Enforcement Officer represents a separate offense and a separate fine of $25 shall be assessed per sign.
(C) The Town Marshal’s Office and the Department of Planning are hereby empowered to enforce this section.
(D) The notice of violation will be mailed certified mail, return receipt, not to exceed two notices, to the address advertised on the sign. Fine payments shall be made to the Town Clerk Treasurer. All fines that remain unpaid by the listed fine due date shall be turned over to the Town Attorney for collection.
(1985 Code, § 270-5) (Ord. passed 4-18-1940; Am. Ord. 2012-20, passed 9-24-2012) Penalty, see § 10.99