Bellamy Signs

[jay]

Maybe we should remove his signs during the city-wide cleanup on Saturday, May 16.

[rusty river]

541.10  POLITICAL YARD SIGNS.

(c)     Display Duration.  No person, firm or corporation shall post or cause to be erected a political yard sign, with the exception of billboards, for public display within the City limits prior to thirty days before the election.  The political sign shall be removed from public display on or before the tenth day following the election.
(Ord. 94-225.  Passed 2-26-97.)

(d)     Location.  No political sign shall be placed on or affixed to a City right-of-way and/or expressway right-of-way and/or City-owned property.  No political sign shall be placed at an intersection on private property in excess of three feet in height and such sign shall be placed in such a manner as not to create a sight restriction to pedestrians and vehicular traffic.

(e)     Violations.  The violation of any provision of this section shall become the responsibility of the political candidate and/or the candidate's campaign chairman, or the local sponsor who is shown to have been responsible for the dissemination, distribution and location of the yard sign.

(f)     Penalty.  Whoever violates or fails to comply with any provision of this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.  Each day the violation continues shall constitute a separate offense.   The cost of removal of the signs shall be borne by the violator of the section.  By due notification of violators by City sign inspectors, whoever violates or fails to comply with this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. 
(Ord.  00-119.  Passed 3-29-00.)


On a utility pole on Belle Vista near Price, someone has stapled a garage sale sign over top of the Bellamy sign...

[jay]

When will the candidate remove the Bellamy signs from the telephone poles in the city?  The election was almost two weeks ago.

What does the ordinance mandate regarding the removal of election signs?