(A) No person, firm or corporation shall affix to a telegraph, telephone, electric light or power pole, or to a tree, shrub, rock or other natural object in any public way or grounds, a playbill, picture, notice, advertisement or other similar thing.
(C.G.S. § 23-65(a))
(B) No person, firm or corporation shall deposit or throw any advertisement within the limits of any public way or grounds, or upon private premises or property, unless same is left at the door of the residence or place of business of the occupant of such premises or property, or deposit or throw any refuse paper, camp or picnic refuse, junk or other material within the limits of any public way or grounds, except at a place designated for that purpose by the authority having supervision and control of such public way or grounds, or upon private premises or property without permission of the owner thereof, or affix to or maintain upon any tree, rock or other natural object within the limits of a public way or grounds any paper or advertisement other than notices posted in accordance with the provisions of state statutes, or affix to or maintain upon the property of another without his/her consent any word, letter, character or device intended to advertise the sale of any article.
(C.G.S. § 23-65(c))
(C) The affixing of any playbill, picture, notice, advertisement or other similar thing concerning the business or affairs of any person, firm or corporation to a pole, shrub, tree, rock or other natural object, within the limits of any public way or grounds in violation of the provisions of this section by an agent or employee of such person, firm or corporation, shall be deemed to be the act of such person, firm or corporation, and such person or any member or officer of such corporation, as the case may be, shall be subject to the penalty herein provided, unless such act is shown to have been done without his knowledge or consent.
(C.G.S. § 23-65(d))
(D) The affixing of each individual playbill, picture, notice, advertisement or other similar thing to a pole, shrub, tree, rock or other natural object, or the throwing of each individual advertisement or lot of refuse paper or other material within the limits of any public way or grounds or on private premises, shall constitute a separate violation of the provisions of this section.
(C.G.S. § 23-65(e).
(Ord. 429, passed 12-4-00) Penalty, see § 94.22