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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 1-2 Placement prohibited without permission.">
  <section prefix="§" num="1-2" heading="Placement prohibited without permission.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="In general.">A person may not affix, place, or cause to be affixed or placed any advertising circular:<para num="(1)">in or on any vehicle in the City, except with the express permission of the owner or operator of the vehicle; or</para>
      <para num="(2)">in or on any residential property in the City (whether in or on a fence, railing, door, porch, lawn, sidewalk, or otherwise), except:<para num="(i)">with the express permission of the owner or occupant of that property; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">by placing the advertising circular into a door slot or a nonlockable bin consistent with federal law.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Lack of permission presumed.">In a civil proceeding, an advertising circular found on an unattended property or vehicle is presumed to have been placed there without permission unless the person responsible for its placement can affirmatively establish otherwise.</para>
    <annotation type="Prior Codifications">City Code, 1976/83, art. 19, §1A(b)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 87-890</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 06-205</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 07-507</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 11-523</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
