(a) On Private Property.
(1) No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any building, vehicle, tree, post, fence, billboard or any other structure or thing whatever, which is the private property of another, without permission of the occupant or owner of the same. No person shall paint, mark, write, print, impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement or the name of any commodity or thing or any trade mark, symbol or figure of any kind upon anything whatever, which is 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.
(2) No person shall erect, or permit to be erected, any sign or billboard in violation of the City Zoning Code.
(b) On Public Property. 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 corporate limits or upon any public building, vehicle, voting booth, flagging, curb, tree lawn, walk, step, stone or sidewalk, or write, print, impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement of any kind upon any public building, voting booth, flagging, curb, tree lawn, step, stone or sidewalk, the property of the Municipality or within the streets lines of the Municipality or over which the Municipality or Council has the care, custody or control, except such as may be required by the laws of the State or upon written permission of the Mayor.
(Ord. 178-1959. Passed 9-14-59.)
(c) Fraudulent Advertising.
(1) No person, firm or corporation shall, directly or indirectly, make, publish, disseminate, circulate or place before the public in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, circular, pamphlet, letter, sign, placard, card, label or over any radio station or in any other way, an advertisement or announcement of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, employment, real estate or anything of value offered by such person, firm or corporation for use, purchase or sale, which advertisement or announcement contains any assertion, representation or statement which is untrue or fraudulent.
(2) No person, firm or corporation shall, in any manner or by any means of advertisement or other means of communication, offer for sale in this City any merchandise, commodity or service as part of a plan or scheme with the intent, design or purpose not to sell the merchandise, commodity or service so advertised at the price stated therein, or with the intent, design or purpose not to sell the merchandise, commodity or service so advertised.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to any visual or sound radio broadcasting stations, to a telephone company offering announcement service according to tariffs filed with the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, or to any publisher or printer of a newspaper, magazine or other form of printed advertising, who or which broadcasts, publishes or prints such advertisement in good faith without knowledge of its false, deceptive or misleading character.
(Ord. 118-1965. Passed 6-21-65.)
(d) Penalty. Whoever violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree and shall be subject to the penalty provided in Section 599.02.