[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Camden
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 12-9-1971 as Art. I of Ch. 22 of the Revised Ordinances; amended
in its entirety 11-24-1982 by Ord. No. MC-1910 (Ch. 118, Art. I,
of the 1987 Code)]
This article shall apply to the distribution or circulation
of handbills, circulars, periodical papers or other advertising matter
of any kind or description and shall include the painting, posting
or tacking up of such matter.
No one licensed under this article and no unlicensed person
shall distribute, deposit, cast or place into any vestibule or yard
or upon any porch of any dwelling house or building or store within
the City or upon any of the streets, sidewalks, parks or other public
places of the City any handbills, papers, circulars, periodicals or
other advertising matter.
The license requirements of this article shall not be construed
to prohibit the posting without a license, in proper places, by those
duly authorized, of real estate sales, "to let" signs, notices of
sheriff's sales and other legal notices, including, but not by
way of limitation, election notices, the advertising for sale, by
any person, of his own products, goods, wares or other merchandise
on property owned or rented by such person, the proper distribution
and delivery to subscribers of newspapers regularly entered as Second
Class mail matter according to an Act of Congress or of any periodical
publication of reputable standing not containing seditious or unpatriotic
sentiments or other matter inimical to the laws or Constitution of
this state or of the United States. A "periodical publication," within
the meaning of this section, shall be construed to mean a regular
newspaper or magazine containing a fair proportion of ordinary reading
matter. The exception herein contained in favor of any such periodical
publication shall not be construed to permit distribution, without
a license, of any mere advertising publication not containing a fair
proportion of nonadvertising reading matter.
A.
A general distribution license for the distribution of circulars,
bills and other advertising matter may be issued hereunder to any
person. Such general licensee shall be authorized to employ distributors,
not over six in number, who may operate under such general license
on the payment by the general licensee of an additional fee of $22.08
for each distributor so licensed.
[Amended 10-14-2008 by Ord. No. MC-4431; 7-13-2010 by Ord. No.
MC-4554]
B.
Any applicant for such general license shall specify, in writing,
to the Division of Inspections the names and residences of any such
distributors.
[Amended 12-8-1983 by Ord. No. MC-1994]
C.
Any such general licensee may subsequently, at any time in the same
year, transfer any such distributor's license to a newly substituted
distributor by filing with the Division of Inspections the name and
address of such substituted distributor and of the distributor who
is so replaced.
[Amended 12-8-1983 by Ord. No. MC-1994]
D.
The holder of such general license or his agents, servants or employees
shall, at all times, display upon their persons badges, which shall
be furnished at the time of issuance of the license.
E.
The holder of such license may obtain additional helpers' badges
upon the payment of $33.12 for each additional badge.
[Amended 10-14-2008 by Ord. No. MC-4431; 7-13-2010 by Ord. No.
MC-4554]
[Amended 12-8-1983 by Ord. No. MC-1994]
Every person to whom a license is issued under this article
for painting, posting, circulating or distributing advertising matter
shall carry such license with him at all times while engaged in the
business for which the license is issued and shall exhibit the same
upon demand to any member of the City's Division of Police or
Division of Inspections.
A.
Every circular, bill or other advertising publication distributed
pursuant to a license issued under this article shall contain the
number and year of such license.
B.
Every sign or other advertising device painted or posted pursuant
to a license issued under this article shall have painted or posted
thereon, in a conspicuous place, the number and year of the license
under which name it is painted or posted.
No person shall paint, post or tack up bills, cards or other
advertising matter on any fence, porch or other private property without
the consent of the owner, or on any post, pole, tree or tree box,
on any part of the public highway, on any box or obstruction placed
thereon, on any sidewalk or around any tree, pole or post on any sidewalk
or highway.[1]
[Added 4-9-1987 by Ord. No. MC-2289]
It shall be unlawful for any person, as defined in § 485-1, to engage in the activity identified and regulated by this article without first having obtained a license therefor and having paid the fee required for such license, both as provided in Chapter 485, Licenses and Business Regulations. Any person engaging in such activity who shall fail to comply with any provision of this article or of Chapter 485 shall be in violation of the provisions of this article.
[Added 4-9-1987 by Ord. No. MC-2289]
A.
Unless otherwise provided in the chapter, penalties against persons violating the provisions of this article shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of § 1-15.
[Amended 10-12-2006 by Ord. No. MC-4234]
B.
A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each and every day
for each and every violation of this article.
C.
A separate offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or
on which a violation or violations occur or continue.
[Adopted 8-23-1984 by Ord. No. MC-2052 (Ch. 118, Art. II,
of the 1987 Code)]
No person shall paint, mark or write on or post or otherwise
affix any handbill or sign to or upon any sidewalk, crosswalk, curb,
curbstone, street, lamppost, hydrant, tree, shrub, tree stake or guard,
railroad trestle, electric light or power or telephone or telegraph
or trolley-wire pole, or wire appurtenance thereof, or upon any fixture
of the fire alarm or police telegraph system or upon any lighting
system, public bridge, drinking fountain, street sign or traffic sign,
municipally owned equipment or vehicle or municipally owned real property
or any property to which a municipal lien has been fixed.
Any handbill or sign found posted or otherwise affixed upon
any public property contrary to the provisions of this article may
be removed by the Division of Police or the Department of Public Works.
The person or organization responsible for any such illegal posting
shall be liable for the cost incurred in the removal thereof, and
the Department of Public Works is authorized to effect the collection
of said cost.
A.
Nothing in this article shall apply to the installation of a metal
plaque or place for individual letters or figures in a sidewalk commemorating
an historical, cultural or artistic event, the location or personality
for which the Department of Public Works, with the approval of the
City Council, has granted a written permit.
B.
Nothing is this article shall apply to the painting of house numbers
upon curbs.
[Amended 4-9-1987 by Ord. No. MC-2289; 10-12-2006 by Ord. No.
MC-4234]
Unless otherwise provided in the chapter, penalties against persons violating the provisions of this article shall be imposed in accordance with the provisions of § 1-15.
