No person, firm, or corporation shall erect, set up, or keep
upon or in front of any building or place of business any sign, signboard
or inscription of any kind (either temporary or permanent), any part
of which shall project or extend into, upon, or over the limits of
any sidewalk, street or highway, without a license from the Board
of License Commissioners.
This chapter shall apply exclusively to outdoor advertising
within public view of any sidewalk, street, highway, public park or
reservation or any other public land.
This chapter shall not apply to signs or other devices controlled
under the provisions of MGL c. 85, §§ 1, 2, and 8,
or any other statute, or any other ordinance of the Town of Greenfield,
including the Zoning Ordinance of the Town of Greenfield, or to any
other devices on the rolling stock, stations or structures of or used
by common carriers. Advertising devices on bridges, viaducts or abutments
thereof are prohibited. This chapter shall not apply to signs or other
devices which advertise or indicate either the person, firm, or corporation
occupying the premises in question or the business transacted thereon,
or which advertise the property itself or any parts thereof as "for
sale" or "to let," "to rent" or "to lease" and shall contain no other
advertising matter.