[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Watertown as
Ch. 32 of the 1949 Code. Section 166-5 added at time of adoption of Code;
see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I. Other amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall conduct the business of bill posting or bill distributing, sign advertising or of distributing signs, advertising matter, samples or any like method of advertising, without first having secured a license as provided in Chapter 112.
Nothing contained in § 166-1 shall be construed to apply to the posting of legal notices or to the posting or distributing by any person of material to advertise any business or activity which such person owns or in which he is directly engaged or to any person engaged in a general poster advertising business owning taxable property used for such purposes within the city.
Legal notices shall be posted only at such places as have been, or may
hereafter be, designated for that purpose.
No person shall place or post an advertisement of any nature in or upon
any public place or upon any telephone or electric pole, lamppost, hydrant,
sidewalk, public building or billboard designated for legal notices. No person
shall place or post an advertisement of any nature upon any privately owned
building, fence or other structure without the consent of the owner thereof.
[Added 12-1-1986 by L.L.
No. 1-1986]
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Article
shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars
($50.) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment for
not more than fifteen (15) days, or both. Each day of continued violation
is a separate and distinct offense.
