1931.14 DISTRIBUTING COMMERCIAL AND NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILLS AT INHABITED PRIVATE PROPERTY.

   (a)    No person shall throw, deposit, or distribute, or cause another to throw, deposit, or distribute, any commercial or noncommercial handbill in or upon private property which are inhabited, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, operator, occupant or other person then present in or upon such private property which are not posted as provided in Section 1931.13. 

      (b)    A person may, unless requested by anyone upon such property not to do so, place or deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited private property, if such handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such property or sidewalks, streets or other public places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by Federal postal law or regulations.

   (c)   The provisions of this section shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the United States, nor to newspapers as defined herein, except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements upon any street, sidewalk, or other public place or upon private property.

(Ord. 2022-4-26. Passed 4-13-22; Ord. 2023-9-82. Passed 9-27-23.)