E-Pledge-O-Meter (1:36 PM - 4/6/04) ------------------------------------------- |XXXXXXXXXX|XXXXXX----|----------|----------| ------------------------------------------- Excellent Question- Yes, it is illegal, and anyone who leaves a sign on the public right-of-way has abandoned it. It is trash, and you can help clean it up.
I'm not against private parties who put up paper or cardboard signs, altho they should remove them after they have served their purpose. The permanent plastic signs, often posted 15 feet up on the post, are another matter. It is not only the CollegePro signs. Some others I have removed: 1-800-got-junk Assembly Jobs Work At Home We Buy Homes 30 People who want to lose 30 pounds Affordable Health Insurance It is really getting to be an epidemic, and I think we need stronger laws, and fines that escalate for multiple sign postings. The current law is toothless, because the fine is only 10 or 20 dollars. I'd like to see a $1000 fine for placing more than three plastic signs in public right of ways. I have been removing signs like this for several years. I started doing this when the Work-At-Home signs started appearing all over my neigborhood. Typically, I cut them down, which leaves a vertical remnant on the post. I do this for two reasons- It is easy, using a knife on a stick. It hopefully suggests to other people that they can do the same thing. REALTORS (Coldwell Banker especially) TAKE NOTE: It is also illegal for realtors to put signs up in public right-of-way. Although the metal signs are harder to dispose of, I take those also. I leave the open house signs alone, because they are temporary. The others go in my trash. If more people took them down and threw them away, the posters would soon stop putting them up. A plastic sign costs 6 bucks or so to replace. I don't know what the metal signs cost. Bob Treumann A. Overbee said: > > I am noticing the ugly, yellow signs for collegepro.com all around on > St. Paul's public boulevards. They are like garage sale signs - only > larger. Is it legal for these temporary signs to be placed all around? > If they are illegally placed, can I simply remove them and throw them out? > A. Overbee > Merriam Park -- Bob Treumann, Saint Paul Please Note: Replies to this email address all go to the trash except where the subject line contains a recognized mailing list identifier, such as [TCMETRO] _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
