Lodi Municipal Code Art. I Generally

It is unlawful for any person to distribute or throw, or procure anyone to distribute or throw, upon any private yard, lawn, driveway, sidewalk, porch or steps of any residence, or upon or in any part of any structure, or upon any vacant property, or in or upon any motor vehicle or other vehicle in the city, any advertising sample, handbill, dodger, circular, booklet or other notice of commercial advertising; provided, that nothing in this section prohibits the distribution and delivery of any newspaper which is capable of being entered or is entered as second-class matter under the provisions of the United States Post Office regulations of March 3, 1879, and other United States statutes.

(Prior code § 15-1)

A. The council declares that the throwing, depositing or procuring of another to throw or deposit circulars, handbills, pamphlets, advertisements or other written materials by attaching to such materials a bag or bags of stones or other heavy object or objects is a public nuisance because said stones or other similar objects may cause serious injury to persons and/or property when struck, picked-up or propelled by power lawnmowers, edgers, leaf blowers, string trimmers or other lawn and/or garden care equipment or when thrown from moving vehicles and shall therefore be abated pursuant to procedures set forth herein. These procedures for abatement are not exclusive and shall not in any manner limit or restrict the city from enforcing other city ordinances regulation or abating public nuisances in any other manner provided by law.

B. Nuisances Prohibited. It is unlawful and an infraction for any person to throw, deposit or to procure another to throw or deposit a circular, handbill, pamphlet, advertisement or any other written material onto any public or private property when said circular, handbill, pamphlet, advertisement or other written material has attached to it a bag containing stones or other heavy object or objects or otherwise has been rolled, wrapped or packaged with a heavy object or objects enclosed with or affixed onto said circular, handbill, pamphlet, advertisement or other written material.

(Ord. 1596 § 1, 1994)

Any person who throws or deposits, or causes or procures to be thrown or deposited, any scraps or pieces of paper, dodgers, handbills, advertising or business cards in or upon any street, alley, sidewalk or public place in the city is guilty of a misdemeanor. Nothing provided in this section prohibits sticking or placing bills or the attaching of handbills, dodgers or cards to posts or buildings by or with the consent of the owners or persons in charge of the same, or the sweeping or removing of the same into any street, alley, sidewalk or place by any person who did not place or procure the placing of such bills and similar matter in such places.

(Prior code § 15-2)

Every person who wilfully or maliciously breaks or destroys any window, window sash, door, blinds or pane of glass of any house or outhouse in the city, or commits any nuisance therein or breaks or destroys or injures any thing therein, or any part of such house, outhouse or any fence or improvement, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 15-4)

Any person who cuts, breaks, defaces or injures any grassplot, shrubs, flowers, bench, chair, outhouse, building or fence, or who cuts or mutilates any trees otherwise than as provided by an ordinance of the city, or by written permit and under the supervision of the city engineer, or any fixtures upon any street, public walk or other public place of the city, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 15-15)

Any person who destroys, injures or removes any flare, sign, notice or monument erected or placed by any employee of the city is guilty of a misdemeanor.

(Prior code § 15-9)

A. The term "city tree, shrub or other plant" refers to those trees, shrubs and other plants which are located upon city property or within the public right-of-way.

B. No person shall damage, cut, carve, transplant, remove or otherwise injure or deface any city tree, shrub or other plant.

C. No person shall attach any rope, wire, chain, screw, nail, bicycle lock, advertising poster, or other contrivance to any city tree, shrub or other plant.

D. No person shall allow any gaseous, liquid or solid substance which is harmful to any city tree, shrub or other plant to come in contact with such city tree, shrub or other plant or the soil adjacent thereto.

(Ord. 1652 § 1, 1997)

It is unlawful for any person knowingly or wantonly to operate or cause to be operated any machine, device, apparatus or instrument of any kind whatever, within the city, the operation of which causes reasonably preventable electrical interference with radio or television reception within the city limits.

(Prior code § 9-42)

Section 9.08.060 shall not be held or construed to embrace or cover the regulation of any transmitting, broadcasting or receiving instrument, apparatus or device used or useful in interstate commerce, or the operation of which instrument, apparatus or device is licensed by any act of Congress of the United States.

(Prior code § 9-43)