[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Scranton as indicated in article histories. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 9-26-1979 as Ch. 3, Art. I, of the 1979 Code]
As used in this Article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
All persons engaged in the business or occupation of posting,
by tacking, posting, painting, demonstrating or otherwise, or distributing
upon the streets any advertising matter, bills, posters, pictures
or any other thing, matter or device whatsoever, advertising the business
of any firm or corporation, whether that of merchant, manufacturer,
publisher or person engaged in any business or industrial pursuit
or of any operas, theaters, shows, circuses or other exhibitions;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed
to apply to the painting of store, office or other signs by sign painters
or to the posting of legal notices by public officers or attorneys
in the manner and in the places prescribed by law or individuals who
are in the business of distributing circulars, almanacs or business
cards who place them inside of the doors of dwellings or buildings
within the city limits.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 140-2, Permit required,
was repealed 11-29-2022 by Ord. No. 37-2022, effective 1-1-2023.
No person shall paint, print, post or in any
way affix any picture, bill or advertising matter of any kind upon
any post, hydrant, curb, sidewalk or other public improvement in any
public ground or street, nor upon any bridge, or part of the same,
nor upon public buildings, structures or erections of any kind belonging
to the city, nor upon any mast or pole in any street or alley erected
or used for supporting or conducting any wire or cable or incidental
thereto, nor upon any tree, lamppost or any structure or erection
of any kind within the limits of any public street or ground in the
city, whether or not the permission therefor has been granted by the
owner thereof, unless express consent therefor shall have been first
granted by the \Director of the Department of Public Safety.
No person shall paint, print, post or in any
way affix any picture, bill or advertising matter of any kind upon
any post, fence, billboard, signboard or upon any building or erection
or structure of any kind, unless the building or object upon which
the same may be placed is the property or under the control of the
person so doing, or unless the consent of the owner or the person
in control thereof has been obtained.
Any billposter who enters upon premises owned,
leased or rented by another and refuses to leave such premises after
having been notified by the owner or occupant of such premises or
his agent, to leave the same and not return to such premises shall
be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
No person shall throw, deposit or distribute
any handbill upon any private premises, if requested by anyone thereon
not to do so, or if there is placed on such premises a sign bearing
the words "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement,"
or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants
of such premises do not wish to have their right of privacy disturbed
or to have any handbills left upon such premises.
A.Â
No person shall loosely scatter or throw any bills
or other advertising matter on the surface of any of the public streets
or ways or in the public grounds nor within the yards of private residences.
B.Â
No billposter or other person shall scatter, daub
or leave any paste, glue or other like substance used for affixing
bills upon any public sidewalk or pavement, nor scatter or throw any
old bills or waste material removed from billboards on the surface
of any public street or way, nor on the surface of any private ground.
No billposter or other person shall post or
affix any bill or advertisement containing pictures, illustrations
or printed matter of any obscene or immoral character.[1]
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Editor's Note: Former § 140-9, License required;
§ 140-10, Application; fee; bond, as amended; and § 140-11,
Expiration, as amended; which immediately followed this section, were
repealed 11-29-2022 by Ord. No. 37-2022, effective 1-1-2023. This
ordinance also stated that nothing in this provision shall be interpreted
as repealing advertising sign permit requirements, license requirements
and related provisions pursuant to Ord. No. 44-1926, as amended by
Ord. No. 5-1963 and 51-1977, and as may be amended further, nor shall
it be interpreted as affecting any provisions of the Zoning Code.
