It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, by himself or herself, or his or her or its agents or servants, to distribute, cast, throw or place, cause to be distributed, cast, thrown or placed, in, upon or along any of the streets, alleys or public places of the city, or upon the porches or yards of private residences therein or within any dwelling or building in the city any samples of merchandise or medicinal preparations for the purpose or with the intent of advertising or making known in a general or promiscuous manner any business, occupation, proposition, medical treatment, medicine or any other article whatsoever, without consent of the Council.
(1980 Code, § 31.123) Penalty, see § 130.99