[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Jamestown 3-26-1962
as Ch. 3 of the 1962 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall distribute or hand out handbills, pamphlets, circulars
or advertising matter upon any of the sidewalks, streets or alleys of the
City, nor shall any person place within or attach the same to any automobile
parked anywhere in the City. Nothing in this section is intended to prohibit
the distribution of handbills or pamphlets announcing political, labor or
civic meetings or other meetings pertaining to the public welfare. No person
shall distribute handbills authorized by this chapter if the same are thrown
upon the sidewalks or streets of the City by the recipients thereof, and any
person distributing any such handbills who shall continue to distribute them
after the recipients of any such handbills have thrown them upon the streets
or sidewalks shall be guilty of violating this section.
No person shall stand in front of or near any school of this City for
the purpose of giving students on their way to or entering therein or proceeding
therefrom handbills, free tickets, posters, circulars, packages or medicines.
No person shall drop any handbills, pamphlets, circulars, advertising
matter or packages of any kind whatsoever from any airplane or airship except
over a landing field and then only upon the written consent of the Chief of
Police.
