(a) 
No person shall place, maintain, or display upon or in view of any highway, street or alley any unauthorized signs, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official control device or any railroad sign or signal.
(b) 
No person shall place or maintain nor shall any public authority permit upon any highway, street or alley any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(c) 
This article shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection up on private property adjacent to highways, streets or alleys of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.
(d) 
Every such prohibited sign, signal or marking is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the chief of police is hereby empowered to remove the same or cause it to be moved without notice.
(e) 
It shall be unlawful for any person to place or affix in the public right-of-way any sign, placard, poster, notice, or other material advertising an event, product, sale, travel directions, political candidacy, or any message whatsoever.
(f) 
For the purpose of this section, there is a rebuttable presumption that the person responsible for the violation of this section is the person named in the advertisement as the sponsor, owner of the premises, candidate or organizer for which the message relates.
(Ordinance 1231 adopted 3/2/10)
No person shall without lawful authority attempt to or in fact alter, deface, injure, knock down or remove any official traffic control device, sign or signal or any railroad sign or signal or any inscription, shield, or insignia thereon, or any part thereof.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10, Article 1.0, Section 1.02)
(a) 
The city council of the City of Pottsboro shall by ordinance direct that the city superintendent shall have the duty of erecting or installing upon, over, along, or beside any street or alley signs, signals and markings, or cause the same to be erected, installed or placed in accordance with this article and consistent with the manual. Said traffic control devices shall be installed immediately, or as soon as specific device, sign or signal can be procured.
(b) 
When the city superintendent has erected and installed any official traffic control device, signal or sign at any location in the City of Pottsboro, or has caused the same to be done under his or her direction, in obedience to this article and the manual, he or she shall thereafter file a report with the city secretary in writing stating the type of traffic control device, sign or signal, and when and where the same was erected and installed. The city secretary shall file and maintain such report among the official papers of the office of the city secretary.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10, Article 1.0, Section 1.03)
It shall be proof, in any prosecution for a violation of this article or any traffic ordinance of the City of Pottsboro, that any traffic control device, sign, signal or marking was actually in place on any street shall constitute prima facie evidence that the same was installed by the city administrator pursuant to the authority of this article and of the ordinance directing the installation of such device, signal or marking since it is unlawful for any person other than the city administrator, acting pursuant to an ordinance of the city, to install or cause to be installed any signal, sign or device purporting to direct the use of the streets or the activities on those streets of pedestrians, vehicles, motor vehicles, or animals.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 10, Article 1.0, Section 1.04)