[Code 1962, § 3-3; amended by Ord. of 4-8-2002]
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute within the
City any posters, handbills, circulars or other advertising matter
without first obtaining a permit to do so from the Chief of Police
or his or her designee.
[Code 1962, § 3-2]
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute in the City
any posters, handbills, dodgers, circulars or other advertising matter,
unless such matter is enclosed in an envelope.
[Code 1962, app. C, § 37; amended by Ord. of 4-8-2002]
It shall be the duty of every billposter to register with the
Chief of Police the names of all persons employed by him or her to
perform the work authorized by such permit.
[Code 1962, § 3-1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to post any posters, stickers,
banners, board signs, placards or any other advertising matter whatsoever
on any electric light pole, telegraph pole or telephone pole or on
any post, fence or tree, or on any other object in the streets of
the City, except a regular billboard.
[Code 1962, § 3-4]
(a)
Any person who, with intent to sell or in anywise dispose of merchandise,
securities, service or anything offered by such person, directly or
indirectly, to the public for sale or distribution, or with intent
to increase the consumption thereof, or to induce the public in any
manner to enter into any obligation relating thereto, or to acquire
title thereto, or any interest therein, makes, publishes, disseminates,
circulates or places before the public, or causes, directly or indirectly,
to be made, published, disseminated, circulated or placed before the
public in this City, in a newspaper or other publication, or in the
form of a book, notice, handbill, poster, blueprint, map, bill, tag,
label, circular, pamphlet or letter or in any other way, an advertisement
of any sort regarding merchandise, securities, service, land, lot
or anything so offered to the public, which advertisement contains
any promise, assertion, representation or statement of fact which
is untrue, deceptive or misleading shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b)
The words "untrue, deceptive and misleading," as used in this section,
shall be construed as including the advertising in any manner by any
person of any goods, wares or merchandise as a bankrupt stock, receiver's
stock or trustee's stock, if such stock contains any goods, wares
or merchandise put therein subsequent to the date of the purchase
by such advertiser of such stock, and if such advertisement of any
such stock fails to set forth the fact that such stock contains other
goods, wares or merchandise put therein, subsequent to the date of
the purchase by such advertiser of such stock in type as large as
the type used in any other part of such advertisement, including the
caption of the same. Such words shall also be construed to include
the use of any writing or document which appears to be, but is not
in fact, a negotiable check, negotiable draft or other negotiable
instrument, notwithstanding the fact that its nonnegotiability is
indicated on the writing or document.
