608.03 Distributing handbills at residences.

608.04 Fraudulent Advertising.

Penalties and Sentencing

698.02 Penalties for misdemeanors.

Unauthorized signals, hiding from view, advertising - see TRAF. 414.07

Parking or operating vehicle for advertising purposes - see TRAF. 432.33

Displaying vehicles for sale - see TRAF. 452.08(a) 

Peddlers, solicitors and canvassers - see B.R. & T. Ch. 836

(a) No person shall stick or post any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any description upon any private building or upon any tree, post, fence, billboard, carriage, step or other structure or thing whatever which is the property of another without first obtaining permission from the occupant or owner thereof. No person shall paint, mark, write, print, impress or in any manner attach any notice, advertisement, the name of any commodity or thing or any trademark, symbol or figure of any kind upon anything whatever which is the property of another without first obtaining permission from the owner thereof.

(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of advertising on private property, a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(Ord. 24-74. Passed 3-25-74.)

(a) No person shall stick, post or attach any advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard of any kind or description upon any telegraph, telephone or electric pole within the City or upon any public building, wooden or metal street name sign, flagging, curbstone, step, stone or sidewalk which is the property of the City or over which the City has care, custody or control.

It is prima-facie evidence that a sign so attached was placed or permitted to be placed there by the person, owner, occupant, firm or corporation whose name and/or address is displayed on the advertisement, poster, sign, handbill or placard.

(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of advertising on public property, a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(a) No person distributing handbills, circulars or other advertisements shall ring the doorbell, sound the door knocker or otherwise call the inmates of any residence to the door for the purpose of receiving such handbill, circular or other advertisement which he or any person with him may be distributing.

(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of distributing handbills at residences, a minor misdemeanor. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(a) No person, directly or indirectly, shall make, publish, disseminate, circulate or place before the public in a newspaper, magazine or other publication, in the form of a book, notice, handbill, poster bill, circular, letter, pamphlet, sign, placard, card or label, over a radio station or in any other way, an advertisement of any sort regarding any merchandise, securities, service, employment, real estate or anything of value offered by him for use, purchase or sale, which advertisement or announcement contains any assertion, representation or statement which is untrue or fraudulent.

(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of fraudulent advertising, a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. Punishment shall be as provided in Section 698.02.

(a) Except as provided in Ohio R.C. 2929.23, whoever is convicted of or pleads guilty to a misdemeanor as classified in the Codified Ordinances shall be imprisoned for a definite term or fined, or both, which term of imprisonment and fine shall be fixed by the court as provided in this section.

Whoever is convicted of or pleads guilty to committing, attempting to commit, or complicity in committing a violation of Section 642.09 or 642.10(a)(2) when the means used are fire or explosion, shall be required to reimburse agencies for their investigation or prosecution costs in accordance with Ohio R.C. 2929.28.

(b)

   (c) The court may require a person who is convicted of or pleads guilty to a misdemeanor to make restitution for all or part of the property damage that is caused by his offense and for all or part of the value of the property that is the subject of any theft offense as defined in Ohio R.C. 2913.01(K) that the person committed. If the court determines that the victim of the offense was sixty-five years of age or older or permanently or totally disabled at the time of the commission of the offense, the court, regardless of whether the offender knew the age of the victim, shall consider this fact in favor of, imposing restitution, but this fact shall not control the decision of the court.