(A) No person shall place, maintain, or display upon, or in view of, any highway or other public street any unauthorized sign, signal, marking, or device which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles an, official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view, or interferes with, the effectiveness of any official traffic-control device, or any railroad sign or signal.
(B) No person shall place, or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway any traffic sign, or signal, bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(C) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information, and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(D) Every such prohibited sign, signal, or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the authority having jurisdiction over the highway is hereby empowered to remove the same, or cause it to be removed without notice.
(Code 1976, § 7.41)