[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the City of Mount Vernon 11-13-1957 as Ch. 4 of
the General Ordinances, approved 11-15-1957. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall post or place any advertising bills, circulars,
posters, cards, cuts, pamphlets or papers of any character or description
upon any fence or billboard or any other place on any building or
street, or print or affix any writing, stencil or other written matter
upon any sidewalk, or distribute handbills, without first having obtained
a license therefor from the Mayor. This chapter, however, shall apply
only to the distribution of commercial or business advertising matter,
except as hereinafter expressly provided.
Every person receiving such a license shall pay therefor the
sum of $100 to the City Clerk and shall also give a bond to the City
of Mount Vernon in the penal sum of $1,000, conditioned upon due observance
of all the ordinances of the City Council that may be adopted or are
now in force.
The Mayor, after the payment of the license fee and the filing
of the bond as hereinbefore provided, may grant such license to such
person as shall make application therefor. The Mayor may, in his discretion,
refuse to issue such license, and in that event the application shall
be marked "rejected" and said sum of $100 and the bond theretofore
filed shall be returned to the applicant. No license shall be issued
for a period in excess of one year.
A.
No person shall post any handbills, notices or advertisements of
any kind on any house, wall or fence without permission of the owner,
or upon any post, sidewalk, flagstones, curbstones, telegraph or telephone
pole, shade tree, box, hydrant or other place in any street; nor print,
stamp or otherwise mark any words, letters, figures, signs or tokens
of any sort thereon without such permission.
B.
No handbills, posters, notices or advertisements of any kind or description
other than official orders issued by the City shall be affixed to
any City property without the approval of the City Council.
No person shall willfully tear down, deface or destroy any notice,
handbill, poster or ordinance posted by order of the City Council
or by or under the direction of any other City department, bureau,
board or office.
No person shall deposit, throw or place any bills, circulars,
posters, cards, pamphlets, wastepaper of any character or other refuse
in or upon any street, lot or enclosure or upon the stoops or other
outside portions of any buildings or in the vestibule or any hall
of any building. This section shall also apply to noncommercial and
nonbusiness advertising matter.
