It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm or corporation to throw into, leave upon, or scatter onto any residential property in the city of Pacific Grove any newspaper, handbill, pamphlet, circular, dodger, or any advertising sheet or matter devised or intended to promote any commercial or money-making activity in respect of which property either of the following has occurred:
(a)
The owner or occupant has posted a sign, viewable from the street, stating words to the effect "NO CIRCULARS" or "NO HANDBILLS" or the like;
(b)
The owner or occupant, or agent of either, has written to the city, at the City Hall, expressing a denial of consent to such form or forms of distribution on the property and the source or entity making such distribution shall have been notified of such denial of consent.
A source or entity making such form or forms of distribution is deemed to have been notified of denial of consent when actually notified of such communication denying consent. As to any source or entity not specifically identified in the communication denying consent, notification shall be deemed completed upon the receipt of such communication by the city. It shall be the duty of any such source or entity to examine the city's records of communications which do not specifically name a source or entity, before making any such distribution. |
Nothing herein contained is intended to prohibit freedom of speech, but is intended to regulate business and commercial advertising matter. |
(Ord. 210 N.S. § 8-2090(1), 1952; Ord. 520 N.S., 1965; Ord. 534 N.S., 1966; Ord. 706 N.S. § 1, 1971)