Cross reference—Freeway signs, Ch. 13; advertising junkyards and auto wrecking yards, §§ 15-20, 15-21; advertising in parks, recreational areas, §§ 18-103, 18-104.
(a) 
The provisions of this division shall not include or apply to newspapers, magazines, pamphlets, periodicals or such printed matter as can reasonably be classed as literature, as distinguished from advertising matter.
(b) 
Except as provided in sections 16-98 and 16-99, this division shall not be deemed or construed to prohibit or restrict the distribution of written or printed matter devoted to the expression of views, opinions, beliefs or contentions relating to religious, political or sociological subjects, or to public or civic affairs, or to labor disputes or other controversies, or to community, state, regional, national or international affairs, or which treat of any social or economic order, or which relate to the arts or sciences; or which are aimed to redress any grievance, or which otherwise are not distributed for the purpose of soliciting business, trade or customers.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)
Every person who distributes or causes to be distributed, or conducts, manages or carries on the business of distributing handbills, circulars, dodgers, posters, pamphlets, advertising samples or other business or commercial advertising of any kind shall pay a fee of $50 per year for the purpose of policing said distribution.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)
No handbill or advertising shall be thrown, placed or distributed upon any yards, sidewalks, automobiles, streets, parking lots or elsewhere so as to litter or make untidy any such place.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)
Any person transacting and carrying on a business licensed under this chapter or any other ordinance of the city shall be exempt from paying the fee required in section 16-95 of this article if the advertising is of such licensed business.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, deposit, place, throw, scatter or cast any commercial or noncommercial handbill upon any premises, if requested by anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on said premises in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words: "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement," or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants of said premises do not desire to have their right of privacy disturbed, or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)
It shall be unlawful for any person to post, to hand out, distribute or transmit any sign, or any commercial or noncommercial handbill:
(1) 
Which may reasonably tend to incite riot or other public disorder, or which advocates disloyalty to or the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by means of any artifice, scheme or violence, or which urges any unlawful conduct, or encourages or tends to encourage a breach of the public peace or good order of the community; or
(2) 
Which contain obscene materials.
(Ord. No. 95-1, § 1, 2-8-95)