Marin County Municipal Code Ch. 6.48 Handbills and Posters

It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm or corporation, to place, or cause to be distributed or placed upon or along any public highway, road, street, square, park, or other public place, or into or upon any private property or territory adjacent to any public highway, in the county of Marin, without the written consent of the owner' thereof, or his agent, or the occupant of said private property, by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or placing to and upon fences, posts, trees, buildings, or other surface other than advertising structure any political card or circular or any advertising sheet or device of cloth, paper or cardboard bills, cards or posters, or tin signs, or matter whatever, designed or intended for advertising or making known in a general or promiscuous manner any business, occupation, profession, medical treatment, medicine, or the dealing or selling of any merchandise or thing whatsoever.

(Ord. 209 § 1, 1933)

This chapter shall not be held to include any sign or notice issued by any court, or public office, or posted by a public official in the performance of any public duty, or a private person in giving a legal notice, or any sign giving notice of any meeting to be held on the premises where said sign is erected, or any sign or advertising structure advertising for sale or lease the property upon which it stands, or the person occupying the premises in question, or the business transacted thereon, and which contains no other advertising matter.

(Ord. 209 § 2, 1933)

Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm or corporation, violating any of the provisions of this chapter, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not to exceed thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. 209 § 3, 1933)