(a) No person shall tear down, remove, destroy, cover up, mutilate, obliterate or otherwise injure any proclamation or official notice, any sign or handbill, notice, poster or advertisement containing a notice of any meeting, lecture, theater, show, play or concert, or any public or private sale of property, which may be lawfully put up within the City, until after they have served the purpose for which they were put up; provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to prevent any person owning or controlling billboards used for advertising purposes from changing or removing advertisements or notices which he may post thereon, or to prohibit any owner from removing advertisements or notices placed or remaining on his property without his consent.
(Ord. 4-1953. Passed 5-11-53; Ord. 80-1973. Passed 12-10-73.)
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.