It shall be unlawful for any person to fasten, tack, nail, tie,
glue, paste or maintain any placard, poster, banner or any other material
anywhere on the streets, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, signal light posts
or bases, street light posts or bases, telephone posts or electric
posts in the city or to cause the same to be done.
This section shall not apply to any officer of the city, the
state, or the United States who may place upon such objects, by tying
with strings or ties any posters or placards in the interest of public
health and safety.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-1)
It shall be unlawful for any person to paint or write pictures,
characters, signs or advertisements or use any other paint or material
of any kind upon any of the sidewalks, streets, curbs or pavements
of the city or upon any ornamental ballustrade, fountain, stairway
or other improvements belonging to the city; and it shall also be
unlawful to paint or to write in any manner thereon, or to carve thereon,
or in any way to mutilate, deface or destroy the same. Provided however,
the city secretary is hereby authorized to issue a permit for limited
periods of time, not exceeding ninety (90) days, listed in the permit,
authorizing the permittee to paint or print street numbers on the
curb showing the correct street number of abutting property, but such
permit shall be expressly conditioned upon the permittee obtaining
the consent of the abutting property owner before painting house numbers
applicable to such abutting property, and be revocable by the city
secretary upon violation of this section.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-2)
It shall be unlawful for any person to build, construct, fasten,
tie or maintain any banners, streamers or other similar materials
anywhere in the city in such a manner that the same shall be above,
over and across any public street within the city; provided, the provisions
of this section shall not apply to charitable organizations or any
person engaged in promoting a nonprofit civic enterprise who has secured
approval from the city administrator and has furnished a bond indemnifying
the city from any personal injury or property damage which might result
from the building, constructing, fastening, tying, disconnecting or
maintaining any such banners, streamers or other similar material
above, over or across any public street within the city. Upon presenting
to the chief of police evidence of approval by the city administrator
and evidence of securing the bond as required above, the chief of
police shall issue a permit to such charitable organization or any
person engaged in promoting a nonprofit civic enterprise to engage
in the activities otherwise herein prohibited.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-3)
It shall be unlawful for any person to place, erect or permit
to remain any standing sign, bulletin board or advertisement of any
kind upon any of the sidewalks of the city, or to place, erect or
permit to remain any swinging sign or sign attached to any building,
which sign is less than nine (9) feet above the sidewalk.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-4)
It shall be unlawful for any person to circulate or distribute
upon any of the public streets, alleys, sidewalks or public grounds
of the city, or to scatter about, or to place in or upon any motor
vehicle standing upon any public street, alley, sidewalk or public
grounds of the city, any dodgers, handbills or circulars.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-5)
It shall be unlawful for any person to post, paint or have posted
or painted, or to display or distribute any bill, sign, bulletin,
card or banner containing pictures or illustrations or any other matter
of an obscene or immoral character, at any point in the city where
the same may be seen by persons traversing any alley, street or public
place.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 3, Sec. 3-6)
