[CC 1979 §44.010 — 44.020]
A.
General Provisions. No sign board, sign post or other erection
shall be placed upon, over or across any sidewalk or other public
thoroughfare of the City of New London, Missouri, unless permission
be first obtained from the Board of Aldermen, and hereafter no awning
or sign board shall be erected or placed upon or across or over any
sidewalk in this City, of either wood, iron or tin, or that shall
require any posts for its support, all such awnings now existing,
the erection of which would be prohibited by this Section may, if
in good repair, secure and safe and not dangerous to persons or property
and not in danger of falling, be allowed to remain; but such structures
shall not be renewed. All such sign boards and awnings which may hereafter
be placed upon or across any sidewalk or other public thoroughfare
in this City, and all such now existing which shall hereafter be declared
by the Board of Aldermen by resolution to be insecure, unsafe and
dangerous to persons and property, or in danger of falling may be
deemed to be an obstruction of the street of said City, wherein the
same is situated within the meaning of this Section.
B.
Violation. Whoever shall within this City willfully violate
the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20.00) nor more
than fifty dollars ($50.00).
