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Sign Code

Title 15, Chapter 151

Prohibited Signs and Activities

• A sign shall not be erected in a manner that would confuse or obstruct the view or interpretation of any official traffic sign, signal or device.
• It shall be unlawful for any person to display upon any sign any obscene, indecent or immoral matter.
• Commercial billboards are prohibited.
• No person shall place or suspend from any building, light pole, utility pole, structure, sidewalk, parkway, driveway or parking area, any goods, wares, merchandise or other advertising or display of such items other than a sign, as defined, regulated and permitted by this code.
• No cloth, paper, banner, flag, device or other similar advertising matter shall be permitted to be attached to, suspended from or be allowed to hang from any sign, building or structure, when the same shall create a public menace or danger.
• No person shall attach any sign, paper or other material, or paint, stencil or write any name, number (except address numbers) or otherwise mark on any sidewalk, curb, gutter, street, utility pole, public building, fence or structure except as otherwise allowed by ordinance.
• No person, firm, corporation or association of person, shall paste, stick, tack, nail or otherwise place any advertisement, handbill, placard or printed, pictured or written matter or thing from any purpose upon any fence, railing, sidewalk or public telephone, electric or other utility pole, or any other public property, including trees thereon.
• It shall be unlawful for any person to scatter or throw any handbills, circulars, cards, tear sheets or any other advertising device of any description, along or upon any street or sidewalk in the city.
• No portion of any sign shall be erected on or over public property, unless the same is erected by the city or with the permission of the city.
• No person shall erect, maintain or permit the erection of any balloon or other floating device anchored to the ground or to any other structure within the city.
• It shall be unlawful to attach any sign to or upon any vehicle trailer, skid or similar mobile structure where the primary use is to provide a base for such sign or constitute the sign itself.  Such signs attached to or upon any vehicle or mobile structure shall be prohibited where any such vehicle is allowed to remain parked along a right of way in the same location, or in the same vicinity, at frequent or extended periods of time, where the intent is apparent to be one of using the vehicle and signs for purposes of advertising establishments, services or products.

More information on the sign code and the restrictions it imposes may be found in the Carrollton Code of Ordinances under Title 15, Chapter 151.  This page does not include all of the restrictions or prohibited actions of the sign code.

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