(a) No person shall place or have placed on his behalf any sign on any street or other public ground within the City, except a sign for traffic control or other official public notice placed by a public official or employee in the lawful performance of his duty. No person shall place or have placed on his behalf any sign on any pole, structure, pipe or fitting designed for and carrying electric power, telephone, gas or water, except that the owner or other person responsible for the maintenance of such pole, structure, pipe or fitting may affix thereto a placard showing its ownership or other identification or a warning of any hazard connected therewith or forbidding trespass on the same.
(b) Any sign placed in violation of the provisions of subsection (a) hereof is hereby declared to be abandoned property and the same may be removed from the site where found either by the owner of such site or by the City, without liability to any claimant thereof to account for the same.
(Ord. 2010-059. Passed 3-7-11; Ord. 2020-037. Passed 7-13-20.)