(a) Advertising on Private Property. No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign or handbill or placard of any description upon any building, vehicle or upon any tree, post, fence, billboard or any other structure or thing whatever, 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 he desires to place such notice, advertisement, name, mark or figure.
(b) Advertising on Public Property. No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any kind or description upon any utility pole or upon any public building, vehicle, voting booth, flagging, curb, tree lawn, walk, step, stone or sidewalk, or write, print or impress or in any manner attach any notice or advertisement of any kind upon any public building, voting booth, flagging, curb, tree lawn, step, stone 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, except such as may be required by the laws of the State or the City, or upon written permission of the City Manager.
(c) Fraudulent Advertising. No person shall directly or indirectly make, publish, disseminate, circulate or place before the public in a newspaper, magazine or other publication or in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, bill, circular, letter, pamphlet, sign, placard, label or in any other way, any advertisement or any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, employment, real estate, or anything of value offered by him for use, purchase or sale, and which advertisement or announcement contains any assertion, representation or statement which is untrue or fraudulent.
(d) Whoever violates subsection (a) or (b) hereof is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. Whoever violates subsection (c) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(Ord. 1224-1973. Passed 12-27-73.)