541.09 POSTING AND DISTRIBUTION OF HANDBILLS.
   (a)   Posting Handbills. No person shall stick, post or scatter any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any public or private building, or upon any tree post, fence, billboard, carriage steps, flagging, curbstone or any grounds or other structure or thing whatever, the property of another, without permission of the occupant or owner of the same. Further, no person shall 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 or to any sidewalk, step, stone or any thing whatever, the property of another, without first obtaining permission of the owner of the sidewalk or other thing on which they desire to place the notice, advertisement, name, mark or figure.
   No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any utility pole within the City limits, without first having obtained permission from the Engineering Commissioner.
   (b)   Distribution of Handbills by Ringing Door Bells. No person distributing handbills, circulars or other advertisements shall ring the door bell, sound the door knocker or otherwise call the inmate of any residence to the door for the purpose of receiving the handbill, circular or other advertisement he or any person with him may be distributing.
(1967 Code §131.13, 131.14)
   (c)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.