Chapter 3
ADVERTISING

Sec. 3-1. Certain types prohibited.

No person, except a public officer or employee in performance of official duty, shall paste, paint, print, nail, tack or otherwise fasten any card, banner, handbill, sign, poster or advertisement or notice of any kind or cause the same to be done on any structure, curbstone, lamppost, fence, pole, hydrant, bridge or tree upon a public street or public property within the city, except as may be required by this code or other ordinances of the city or the laws of the state or of the United States. Any advertisement prohibited in this section may be taken down, moved or destroyed by any city official. (Code 1960, § 3-1)

Sec. 3-2. Placing, throwing, etc., advertising – On private property.

No person, either for himself or by his agent or servant, shall leave, distribute or throw any sample packages of medicine or other article of merchandise used for advertising purposes in the lot, yard or enclosure of another, unless the same be personally delivered to some adult person in charge of the premises. (Code 1960, § 3-2)

Secs. 3-3 , 3-4. Reserved.

Editor’s note – Ord. No. 3527, § 2, enacted Aug. 25, 1980, repealed §§ 3-3 and 3-4, relative to placing advertising matter on public property and on vehicles. Said sections were derived from Ord. No. 3138, §§ 17, 18, adopted April 23, 1973.

Sec. 3-5. Permission necessary to fasten advertising on certain property.

No person shall stick, fasten, paste or put upon any house, fence, wall, walk or other public or private place in this city any printed, written, painted or other advertisement, bill, notice, sign or poster or cause the same to be done without having first obtained permission of the owner of such house, fence, wall or other structure. (Code 1960, § 3-6)

Sec. 3-6. Placing advertisement upon motor vehicles.