§ 9-219. Permit required; "unlawful activity" defined

(a) No person shall erect, move, alter, change, repair, place, suspend, attach or maintain or cause or permit to be erected, moved, altered, changed, repaired, placed, suspended, attached or maintained any sign, street clock, street bulletin, street banner, on, over or above any public street or sidewalk without first obtaining a permit from the city council to do so.

(b) No person shall exhibit, post or display upon any sign or billboard any statement, words or signs of any obscene, indecent or immoral nature, or any picture, illustration or delineation of any human figure in such detail as to offend public morality or decency; or lewd, lascivious act, matter or thing of an obscene, indecent or immoral nature, or offensive to the moral sense; or any murder, suicide, robbery, holdup, shooting, stabbing, clubbing or beating of any human being, wherein any such act is shown in gruesome detail or in a revolting manner, or in any manner objectionable to the moral sense.

(c) No person shall scatter, daub or leave any paint, paste, glue or other substance used for painting or fixing advertising matter upon any public street or sidewalk or scatter or throw or permit to be scattered or thrown any bills, wastepaper, paper, cloth or materials of whatsoever kind removed from billboards on any public street or on private property.

(d) No person, except a public officer or employee in the performance of a public duty or a private person in giving a legal notice, shall paste, post, paint, print, nail or tack or otherwise fasten any card, banner, handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind upon any property without the consent of the owner, holder, leasee, agent or trustee thereof.

(Ord. No. 74-69, § 2, 1-7-75)