(A) No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway 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 movement of traffic or the effectiveness of an 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) No tree, bush or foliage of any kind shall be so placed, maintained, allowed to remain or displayed upon either public or private property in such a manner as to hide from view or interfere with the movement of traffic or the effectiveness of any traffic-control devices, sign or signal.
(1) All such trees, bushes or foliage are hereby declared to be nuisances and may be removed by any police officer or under his or her direction and supervision.
(D) It shall be unlawful to maintain or operate in view of any street or highway any flashing or rotating beacon of light.
(E) 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.
(F) No person shall sell or offer for sale any traffic-control device to be used on any street or highway in the municipality which does not conform to the requirements of this chapter.
(G) 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.
(H) This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection of State “Adopt-A-Highway” signs by the village as provided in the State Adopt-A-Highway Act, 605 ILCS 120/1 et seq.
(625 ILCS 5/11-310) Penalty, see § 70.999