“Sick of Signs” Campaign Clamps Down on Street Spam
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Drivers everywhere are subjected to these demanding roadside pleas. While the entrepreneurs who tack them to telephone poles, tape them to lampposts and bus shelters, or plant them in public rights-of-way might view them as business opportunities, local governments see them as litter. They’re illegal and authorities want them gone.
Thus, the birth of Sick of Signs, a nationwide clean-up campaign launched by the Tow, Texas-based American Association of Code Enforcement (AACE). It encourages cities to dedicate a day or a week in September to ridding their communities of street spam. Yard signs on private property are acceptable and exempt.