No person, persons, company or corporation shall hereafter engage in or carry on the business or occupation of billposting, sign and bulletin painting, distributing card and banner tacking, or any similar business, or any part thereof, in the city without first having been licensed to carry on said business and having complied with the provisions of this article.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
Any person, firm or corporation desiring to engage in the foregoing occupations or any part thereof shall first file with the city comptroller a bond with sufficient sureties to be approved by the city comptroller, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) conditioned that the person, firm or corporation, licensed to engage in any of the above occupations, will save and protect harmless the said city from any or all damages in the prosecution of said business and will conform to all the ordinances of the city regulating the said business.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
No person, firm or corporation shall engage in the billposting, sign and bulletin painting business without having first erected, in a secure and safe manner as hereinafter provided, billboards or sign and bulletin boards on the locations and at the points where said billposting and sign display advertisements are to be exhibited, and said person, firm or corporation shall also file with the city secretary a list of the contracts, with the owners for said places and locations where said billboards and bulletin boards are erected.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
When said person, firm or corporation shall have filed the list of locations and the bond, as hereinabove provided, the city secretary shall issue a license for the period of one year to said person, firm or corporation to carry on the said business or occupation upon the payment to the city of the license fee as set from time to time by the city council and maintained on file in the office of the city secretary.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
No person shall paste, post, paint, print, mail or otherwise fasten any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind whatsoever, or cause the same to be done, on any curbstone, flagstone, or any other portion or part of any sidewalk or street, or upon any tree, lamppost, hitching post, telegraph pole, telephone pole, hydrant, bridge, pier, or upon any structure, within the limits of any street in the city, except such as may be required by the ordinances of the city without the express consent of the city council, and no person shall paste, post, paint, print, nail or otherwise fasten any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement, or notice of any kind or cause the same to be done, upon any private wall, window, door, gate, fence, advertising board or sign, or upon any other private structure or building unless he is the owner thereof without the consent in writing of the owner of such wall, window, door, fence, gate, advertising board or sign, or other private building or structure, under a penalty in accordance with the general penalty provision set forth in section 1.01.009 of this code for each and every offense. When any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind shall be found posted, painted, printed, nailed or otherwise fastened on any curbstone, flagstone or any other portion or part of any sidewalk, or upon any tree, lamppost, hitching post, telegraph pole, telephone pole, hydrant, bridge, pier, or upon any private wall, window, door, gate, fence, advertising board or sign, or any other private building or structure, in any way advertising any person, firm, or corporation, the finding of such handbill, sign, poster, advertisement, or notice shall be prima facie evidence that it was posted, pasted, painted, printed, nailed or otherwise fastened contrary to the provisions of this section, by the person, firm or corporation thereby advertised.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
No person, firm or corporation carrying on the business of billposting, sign or bulletin painting, distributing card and banner tacking shall, within the city limits, post or paint or cause to be posted or painted, so that the same can be seen from the streets, alleys or other public places of the city, any advertisements containing pictures or illustrations of an obscene or immoral character, under a penalty in accordance with the general penalty provision set forth in section 1.01.009 of this code for each and every offense.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
No person, firm or corporation shall scatter, daub, or leave any paste, glue or other like substance used for affixing bills upon any public sidewalk or pavement or scatter or throw any old bills or waste material removed from billboards on the surface of any public street or way or on the surface of any private ground.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
No person, firm or corporation shall post, paint or affix any sign or advertisement upon any structure or structures save those which have been erected for and are suitable billboards, signs, or bulletin boards for the affixing and display of said advertisements.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
(a) 
No permit shall be issued to any applicant for permission to erect a billboard or sign board unless such applicant shall agree to place and maintain on the top of such billboard or sign board the name of the person or corporation owning same or who is in possession, charge or control thereof. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of buildings to see to it that the name of the person or corporation owning or in possession, charge or control of such billboard or sign board is placed upon such billboard or sign board forthwith upon the erection thereof and is kept thereon at all times while such billboard or sign board is maintained.
(b) 
Every person, firm or corporation licensed to carry on the business of billposting, sign or bulletin painting, distributing card and banner tacking or similar business, as provided in this article, shall forthwith cause the name of the owner and the number of his license to be plainly painted in letters at least five inches in length in a conspicuous place on the outside of each side of any wagon or vehicle used in said business and shall keep the same plain and distinct at all times when used during the continuance of such license; but upon the expiration of such license (unless renewed) such person shall immediately cause the said name and number to be erased from said wagon or vehicle, and shall not allow said wagon or vehicle to be used with said name or number thereon.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)
Any person, firm or corporation who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provisions of this article shall be fined in accordance with the general penalty provision set forth in section 1.01.009 of this code for each offense, and the violation of any of the provisions of this article shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
(Ordinance 199 adopted 3/7/17)