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A sign is attached to a tree in Havre. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce's Downtown Revitalization Committee is asking people to use sign holders - Avalaible through the Havre Daily News garage sale kits - instead of posting signs on traffic boxes, light poles or trees.
Yard and garage sale signs, like those pictured, must be posted without putting them on trees, light poles or traffic boxes.
From Havre Area Chamber of Commerce
With the hint of spring comes a weekend activity in the Havre community - garage sales.
And with garage sales comes the posting of signs all over the community. The Downtown Revitalization Group has worked to add art and color to the community through the pictures that cover nine traffic control boxes in the community. This group is asking that signs, posters and such, not be taped to this boxes.
They also hope that community members hosting garage sales will work with the Havre Daily News, as a new garage sale sign program was developed last summer in partnership with the paper. Through a generous donation of sign holders the Havre Daily News provides the wire frames along with their garage sale promotion kit. The wire frames are placed into the ground thus not damaging trees, lamppost and fences. Once a sale is over people are asked to gather their signs so they don't become litter.
The wire frames can be reused by people or returned to the HDN for recycling to another garage sale customer
A city ordinance states the posting of bills is unlawful within the city limits and there is the potential for fines to be levied when the ordinance is violated. While the ordinance doesn't note trees, it is hopeful that community members discontinue posting signs on trees along Fifth Avenue. This is harmful to the trees and eventually becomes litter.
5-1-7: POSTING OF BILLS:
No person shall, within the limits of the city, post, paint, or distribute any advertisements upon any private wall, door, gate or fence; or upon any curbstone, flagging, gutterstone, sidewalk, lamppost, gateway, telephone or telegraph pole, fireplug, or any public building of the city, or upon the public grounds, or the wooden or iron railings or fences surrounding the same, of the announcement for sale or barter of any description of merchandise, or of the treatment of any disease, or of any public amusement or lottery, or any notice of general public character, or any advertisement whatever, without the previous written consent of the mayor; or upon any property belonging to any person without the previous written permission of the said person. (Ord. 46, 8-20-1906)
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