[Amended 3-19-2003 by Ord. No. 8-2003[1]]
Any person desiring to engage in or carry on the posting of bills and erection of signs for advertising purposes shall comply with the distribution and posting regulations in this article.
[1]
This ordinance also repealed former §§ 80-15, Standards of conduct, and 80-17, License fees; surety bonds; exempt organizations, and renumbered former §§ 80-16, Distribution and posting regulations, and 80-18, Violations and penalties as §§ 80-15 and 80-16, respectively.
A. 
No handbill or sample or other article for advertising purposes shall be cast, thrown or scattered or caused to be cast, thrown or scattered in or upon any of the streets, sidewalks or other public places of the Borough or in or upon any private yard, walkway, driveway or porch, but shall be delivered to the owner, occupant or other person then present in or upon such private premises. No handbill or sample or other article for advertising shall be delivered to any private premises if anyone thereon so requests or if there is placed on the premises, in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertising" or any similar notice indicating in any manner that the occupants of said premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
B. 
No bill shall be posted or sign erected on any lamppost, public utility pole, shade tree or any public building, property or structure, except as may be required by law.
C. 
Any bill or sign which is erected within the Borough shall be posted or erected for a maximum period of 10 days.
[Amended 3-19-2003 by Ord. No. 8-2003]
D. 
All such signs or bills posted or erected shall be tied on, and in no event shall any bill or sign having an adhesive backing be posted or erected on any surface.
[Amended 3-17-1999 by Ord. No. 5-1999]
Any person who violates or permits the violation of any provision of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding brought before a District Justice, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be subject to the payment of a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $600, plus the costs of prosecution. Upon default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment in the county prison for a period of not more than 30 days. Each section or provision of this chapter that is violated shall constitute a separate offense, and each day or portion thereof in which a violation of this chapter is found to exist shall constitute a separate offense, each of which violations shall be punishable by a separate fine imposed by the District Justice of not less than $25 and not more than $600, plus the costs of prosecution, and, upon default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment in the county prison for a term not more than 30 days.