It shall be unlawful for any person to post or hang any handbill, notice or placard, except legal notices, upon any post, electric light or telephone pole, tree, fence, bridge or other objects in the streets, alleys or public grounds in the village, except upon public billboards authorized and located by the Village Board of Trustees.
A. 
Criminal penalty. Any person who violates any provision of this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a fine not to exceed $250 or to imprisonment for a term not to exceed 15 days, or both.
B. 
Civil penalties; construal.
(1) 
Obedience to the provisions set forth herein may be enforced by criminal information for the penalties herein prescribed, as well as by prosecution of the offender as provided in Subsection A of this section, or by civil action for a penalty or by civil remedy at law or equity by way of injunction or otherwise to abate or prevent a violation of the provisions of this article.
(2) 
Neither a judgment in nor the pendency of a criminal prosecution for an alleged violation of the provisions of this article nor a judgment in or the pendency of a civil action of law or in equity shall be a bar to the other form of proceeding.
(3) 
The imposition of a penalty for a violation of this article shall not excuse the violation or permit it to continue, and the remedies herein provided for penalties and civil action to enjoin or abate a violation shall be cumulative.