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Thursday, July 15, 2010 | 2 a.m.
Sun Coverage
Mr. Sun,
Is it legal for every huckster selling carpet-cleaning services, condos or drink specials to post banners and signs on stop signs and light poles along the streets in my neighborhood, or even along busy thoroughfares? And if so, is it illegal for me to remove them?
— Vigilante Sign Remover
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Mr. Sun sometimes wishes the world were as advertised on the valley’s light poles. Lose those extra pounds with ease? Sign me up. Get filthy rich working from home? Nirvana.
But I digress.
Those signs with the fantastic claims decorating traffic signs and light poles — litter on a stick, as one wag described them — are illegal, according to valley code enforcement officials. And the public is more than welcome to tear them down, authorities say, as long as they keep things tidy.
“Obviously they can’t remove them and throw them on the ground because that would be littering,” said Officer Barbara Morgan of Metro Police. “But if they remove them properly and throw them away, there should be no repercussions.”
Questions for Mr. Sun should be sent to page8@lasvegassun.com.
The headline asks a different question and that is not answered.
So, is it legal to post. Yes or No??
Logic, maybe you should read again:
"Those signs......decorating traffic signs and light poles -- litter on a stick, as one wag described them -- are illegal"
All of this darn government regulation has just got to be stifling the "free market" and costing us money and jobs. How dare they?
MORON: "The headline asks a different question and that is not answered.
So, is it legal to post. Yes or No??"
SUN: "are illegal"
Reading comprehension, much?
That means I can rip down every sign that advertises to elect this, that or the other creepy, vote no on everything Republican in office.
Because they are selling something I don't want.
Don't worry. I'll dispose of them in the proper trash receptacles.
Cool.
Defacing or destroying a political sign in this state is a misdemeanor. Just ask Ty Cobb from Reno.
What about all those signs by the sidewalk in front of malls? Like Eastern for example, so many crappy ugly home made signs right off the sidewalks in the rocks, just posted up, some use those stupid flag things. Can I just drive up easter and load all that crap in a truck and take it to the dump? I'm sure it would be worth about $10,000 of marketing materials wasted.
need to ban those idiots that stand on the corners with signs too.
Is that why folks put garage sale signs on weighted boxes and put the boxes on corners? That's just as yucky!
BCDave, how long can these political sign stay up, they are all around up and down St.Rose!
@Colin. The political signs are not on utility poles. However there are regulations surrounding them and they are supposed to be removed within some set time period after the election.
And it is illegal to destroy those legal political signs and people have been fined for doing so.
As for political signs, take a look at the ones mounted to trailers. There are absolutely no license plates attached to them. Yet many times I've witnessed trucks pulling these things along city streets to drop them off in empty fields. And that is definitely illegal.
If politicians want to be "tough on crime", they need to stop breaking the law themselves to get elected.
I've never voted for someone just because I saw their sign(s) on a weedy vacant lot. Those lots seem to attract signs from several candidates running for the same office.
Sometimes I vote against someone based on whose yard I see their sign posted in.
Yikes, Bakersfield! What a system for choosing appropriate candidates :)
As I recall, political campaign signs are supposed to be removed within thirty days after the election.
The law says political signs must be removed within 30 days after the election, but of course, there are no penalties.
Political signs can not be posted on "public" property and they are not allowed to post them on "private" property without the consent of the owner or manager of the property.
Most of the campaigns break the law. If they are posted on "public" property you are allowed to remove them. If they are on private property you can not touch them without breaking the law.
If you decide to remove on from Public Property I would take a picture of it first showing that they where breaking the law to cover your butt.
How about some NEW questions? This one is old already.
Has it been 30 days now? I think I counted at least 200 political signs around 215/515/eastern - lol
There are people or groups of people who drive around late at night and cut down illegal signs. They always leave a little bit of the sign there to let the criminals who plastered it there know it was unwanted and removed. I don't know who they are but they have my gratitude.
If I had a pickup, I'd go around and pick them all up, and drop them off at the dump.
The signs have phone numbers on them. Why not prosecute?
Mr. Sun get laid off? What's with the lack of updates?
How about some NEW questions?
Thinking the same thing as the last two comments.