(A) No person shall throw, deposit, or distribute any handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant, or other person then present in or upon such private premises, except that such person, unless requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill in or upon the inhabited private premises, if the handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets, or other public places, except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by federal postal law or regulations.
(B) The provisions of division (A) above shall not apply to the distribution of mail by the Untied States, nor to newspapers, except that newspapers shall be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried or deposited by the elements in an unbound condition upon any sidewalk, parkway, gutter, street, alley, or other public place or upon private property.
(1984 Code, § 3-09-200) (Ord. 127, passed 7-27-1982) Penalty, see § 92.999