It is unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place
or cause to be placed along or about any street, lane, avenue, alley,
court or highway within the city, by posting or causing to be posted,
affixing or causing to be affixed, lettering or writing or causing
to be lettered or written, onto any tree, pole, post, hydrant, pipe,
tank, stand, curb, sidewalk, structure or public building or other
thing, any bill, placard, poster, hanger card or sign, or other thing,
or advertising; excepting, however, notices of public improvement
or public work or other legal notices required or permitted by law,
and excepting, also, temporary banners stretched across the public
street, for which a permit has been issued by the city council. Any
such bill, placard, poster, hanger card or sign or other printed matter
or advertising shall be a public nuisance.
(1941 Code § 1457)
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10.04.010 of this code shall only apply to that part of the public street, lane, avenue, alley, court or highway extending from property line to property line, and in no case to private property.
(1941 Code § 1458)
It is unlawful for any person to throw, deposit or distribute
or cause to be thrown, deposited or distributed, in or on any street,
alley, gutter, highway, park, vacant lot or other place in the city,
or in any vehicle parked or standing upon any such place, any dodger
or other similarly written or printed matter.
(1941 Code § 1459)
It is unlawful to post, stick, stamp, paint, place or otherwise
affix, any notice, placard, bill, poster or advertisement to or upon
any sidewalk, crosswalk, curbing, hydrant, shade tree or box tree,
fence enclosure or builds or upon any telegraph, telephone, electric
lighting or electric railway pole, or motor vehicle in the city, without
first obtaining the permission of the owner, agent or occupant thereof,
or to distribute or cause to be distributed or thrown upon any street,
square or sidewalk, or, without first obtaining the permission of
the owner, agent or occupant thereof, upon any private premises, in
the city, any handbill, dodger, circular or any other advertisement.
(1941 Code § 1460)