[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Islandia
during codification; see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
No person shall post or place any advertising bills, circulars, posters,
cards, cuts, pamphlets or papers of any character or description upon any
fence or billboard or any other place on any building or street or print or
affix any writing, stencil or other written matter upon any sidewalk or distribute
handbills, without first having obtained a license therefor from the Village
Clerk. This chapter, however, shall apply only to the distribution of commercial
or business advertising matter, except as hereinafter expressly provided.
Every person receiving such a license shall pay therefor the sum of
$100 to the Village Clerk and shall also give a bond to the Village of Islandia
in the penal sum of $500, conditioned upon due observance of all the local
laws of the village that may be adopted or are now in force.
A.
The Village Clerk, after the payment of the license fee
and the filing of the bond as hereinbefore provided, may grant such license
to such person as shall make application therefor. The Village Clerk may,
in his discretion, refuse to issue such license, and in that event the application
shall be marked "rejected," and said sum of $100 and the bond theretofore
filed shall be returned to the applicant.
B.
No license shall be issued for a period in excess of
one year.
A.
No person shall post any handbills, notices or advertisements
of any kind on any house, wall or fence without permission of the owner or
upon any post, sidewalk, flagstones, curbstones, telegraph or telephone pole,
shade tree, box, hydrant or other place in any street, nor print, stamp or
otherwise mark any words, letters, figures, signs or tokens of any sort thereon
without such permission.
B.
No handbills, posters, notices or advertisements of any
kind or description other than official orders issued by the village shall
be affixed to any village property without the approval of the Board of Trustees.
No person shall willfully tear down, deface or destroy any notice, handbill,
poster or local law posted by order of the Board of Trustees or by or under
the direction of any other village department, bureau, board or office.
No person shall deposit, throw or place any bills, circulars, posters,
cards, pamphlets, wastepaper of any character or other refuse in or upon any
street, lot or enclosure or upon the stoops or other outside portions of any
buildings or in the vestibule or any hall of any building. This section shall
also apply to noncommercial and nonbusiness advertising matter.
Any person committing an offense against any provision of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be guilty of a violation pursuant to the Penal
Law of the State of New York, punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or by
imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
The continuation of an offense against the provisions of this chapter shall
constitute, for each day the offense is continued, a separate and distinct
offense hereunder.
