[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Clearfield as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Adopted 3-21-1932 by Ord. No. 434 (Ch. 31, Art. I, of the 1966 Code)]
No advertisements in the form of handbills, posters, flyers
or any samples of patent medicine or of any kind of groceries or merchandise
whatsoever, no matter in what form the same may be put up, shall be
distributed among the houses or other places in the Borough of Clearfield,
nor shall the same be thrown on the streets, alleys, highways, public
places or on improved or unimproved property within the limits of
the Borough of Clearfield.
Any person being convicted before the Mayor or any Magisterial
District Judge of the Borough for a violation of this article shall
be liable to a fine not exceeding $100 or to undergo imprisonment
not to exceed 10 days.
[Adopted 10-16-1911 by Ord. No. 211 (Ch. 31, Art. II, of the 1966 Code)]
From and after the passage of this article it shall be unlawful
for any person or persons to post, paste, paint, write or otherwise
place any show bill, placard, program, sale bill, advertisement, notice,
sign or poster of any kind or character upon any telephone, telegraph,
electric light or other pole, or upon any tree or upon any of the
sidewalks along the public streets or alleys in the Borough of Clearfield,
Pennsylvania.
[Amended 6-6-1968 by Ord.
No. 968]
Any person or persons violating the provisions of this article
shall, upon conviction before the Mayor or Magisterial District Judge,
be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $3 nor more than $10 and,
in default of the payment thereof, with costs of restoring walls and
other areas defaced, shall undergo imprisonment in the Borough lockup
for a period not to exceed five days or, at the discretion of the
Mayor or the Magisterial District Judge hearing the case, shall be
sentenced and committed to the county jail of Clearfield County for
a like period.
