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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 4 : Official Traffic-Control Devices

15-408 : Display of unauthorized signs, signals or markings.

  1. No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway an unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be, or is an imitation of, or resembles an official traffic-control device or railroad sign or signal or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of , any official traffic-control device or any railroad sign or signal.
  2. No person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit, upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
  3. This section shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official traffic-control signs.
  4. Each sign, signal, or marking prohibited by this section is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the city traffic engineer is empowered to remove the nuisance or cause it to be removed without notice. (1973 Code, § 11-55)