For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
BILLPOSTER. Any person engaging in the business for hire of posting, fastening, nailing or otherwise affixing any written, painted or printed matter of any kind, or other form or reproduction thereof, hereinafter called “sign,” containing a message or information of any kind whatsoever, to any
outdoor billboard, or to or upon any bridge, fence, pole, post, sidewalk, tree or to or upon the exterior of any other structure, except that the terms of this definition shall not apply to nor include any sign mounted on, fastened to or suspended from the outside of any building or other structure, in accordance with and authorized by any provisions of an ordinance or statute either for any public convenience or use, or regulating the construction or use of so-called outdoor display signs, whether the display signs are illuminated or not.
COMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature:
(1) Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity or thing;
(2) Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial establishment, or other activity for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interests thereof by sales;
(3) Which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind, for which an admission fee is charged for the purposes of private gain or profit; (The terms hereof shall not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind, when either of the same is held, given or takes place in connection with the dissemination of information which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public peace, safety and good order. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition or event of any kind, without a license, where the license is or may be required by any law of the state or under any ordinance of the city.)
(4) Which, while containing reading matter other than 35 advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor; or
(5) Which is not covered by the definition of “sign.”
HANDBILL DISTRIBUTOR. Any person engaging or engaged in the business for hire or gain of distributing commercial or noncommercial handbills, other than newspapers distributed to subscribers thereof, and any person receiving compensation directly or indirectly for the distribution of the handbills.
NEWSPAPER.
(1) Any newspaper of general circulation as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the Post Office Department of the United States, in accordance with federal statute or regulation, and any newspaper filed and recorded with any recording officer, as provided by general law.
(2) In addition thereto,
NEWSPAPER shall mean and include any periodical or current magazine regularly published with not less than four issues per year and sold to the public.
NONCOMMERCIAL HANDBILL. Any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter or literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of a sign, commercial handbill or newspaper.
PRIVATE PREMISES. Any dwelling, house, building or other structure, designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to the dwelling, house, building or other structure.
PUBLIC PLACE. Any and all streets, boulevards, avenues, lanes, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, plazas, grounds and buildings.
(`61 Code, § 3.1) (Ord. 329, passed 3-3-1957)