(a) No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign, or handbill, or placard of any description upon any private building, private vehicle, or upon any tree, post, fence, billboard, or any other structure or thing, whatever on the private property of another without permission of the occupant or owner of the same; nor paint, mark, write, print, or impress, or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement, or the name of any commodity or thing, or any trade mark, symbol, or figure of any kind upon anything whatever the property of another without first obtaining permission of the owner of such thing, on which it is desired to place the notice, advertisement, name, mark, or figure.
(b) No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill, or placard of any kind or description upon any telegraph, telephone, railway, or electric light pole within the limits of the City, or upon any public property, public building, vehicle, voting booth, curbstone, curb lawn, walk, step, or sidewalk, or to write, print, or impress, or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement of any kind upon any public property, public building, voting booth, curbstone, curb lawn, step or sidewalk, the property of the City, or within the street lines of the City, or over which the City or Council thereof has the care, custody, or control, without the written permission of the Mayor, Safety Director, or Service Director.
(c) Any advertising sign, bill or poster of any description maintained, fastened, placed, tacked or in any manner attached to any pole or standard upon any street or public place is hereby declared to be a nuisance and shall be abated in the following manner: The Director of Public Safety is hereby directed to remove all signs, bills and posters of any kind or description, attached to such poles or standards upon any street or public place.
(d) This section does not apply to the posting of a handbill or notice required by law to be posted.
(e) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(Ord. 851106-92. Passed 11-6-85.)