[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Brentwood 3-2-1982
as Ch. XIII, Part 4, of the 1982 Code of Ordinances. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to distribute
or cause to be distributed by throwing, handing or placing any papers, handbills,
circulars or other advertising matter or devices or wastepaper in or upon
any street, sidewalk or alley or poles of the Borough of Brentwood or to distribute
or cause to be distributed by throwing or placing any papers, handbills, circulars
or other advertising matter or devices or wastepaper in or upon any lawn,
yard, porch or vestibule of any building in the Borough of Brentwood.
Nothing in this chapter shall apply to the sale and delivery of newspapers
or to the distribution of any papers on a paid circulation list or the distribution
of addressed envelopes, nor to the distribution of any advertising matter
by charitable institutions or by any church organization or by the Borough
School District.
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall distribute or cause
to be distributed any advertising matter, circulars, papers, handbills or
other advertising matter or devices within the Borough of Brentwood without
first having obtained a permit for same from the Borough Secretary.
C.
No permit shall be issued except upon the condition that
the distribution of said advertising matter, papers, handbills, circulars
or other advertising matter or devices shall be conducted in conformity with
this chapter.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which shall violate any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine
of not more than $600 and costs of prosecution or, in default of payment of
such fine and costs, to undergo imprisonment for not more than 30 days. In
addition, any permit issued to a convicted violator shall be revoked and no
further permit granted.
