Section 8.24.080 Handbills, signs, etc., on curbstones.

It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to paste, post, paint, print or nail, or cause to be pasted, posted, painted, printed or nailed, any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind on any curbstone, flagstone or any other portion of any sidewalk, or upon any tree, lamp post, telegraph pole, hydrant, telephone pole, trolley pole, street railway pole or electric light pole, except name of a street placed by the city; or upon any part of any bridge; or without first having secured permission from the owner thereof, upon any private wall, door, gate or fence within the limits of the city. Provided, that the fact that any handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind is found pasted, posted, painted, printed or nailed as aforesaid, shall be primal facile evidence that the person, partnership, association, corporation and the members thereof whose business or occupation is so advertised, caused the handbill, sign, poster, advertisement or notice of any kind to be so pasted, posted, painted, printed or nailed as aforesaid. Provided, that the cloth banners announcing the meeting place of conventions at which no admission fee is charged, or cloth banners for purely decorative purposes may be allowed for a certain number of days, by permission of the city council.