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[QUOTE="RichHorror:1153649"]And on a similar note-- http://www.projo.com/news/content/Post_No_Bills_12-14-10_HUL3AQL_v51.315d23d.html PROVIDENCE — Yard sales, junk cars wanted, apartments for rent, music shows, siding and replacement windows for houses. Stickers and posters for anything and everything pop up on utility poles and other public fixtures, creating an unsightly mess around the city. But who does anything about it? That is what the City Council is asking. And now the members want action. They have dusted off a 1914 ordinance that makes it illegal to post notices and advertising in the public right of way, and they have tweaked the law to make it explicit that the police enforce the ban and the Department of Public Works removes the stuck-on litter. Unaffected are any signs allowed by the building code or zoning ordinance. The sponsor is Councilman Nicholas Narducci Jr., a Democrat who represents Ward 4 in the North End. “I just got tired of seeing what I was seeing,” Narducci said. “It’s disgusting.” Council impatience with what they perceive as buck-passing by city departments led to the tweaking, to make it clear who is responsible for what. “The Police Department and DPW have been fighting about this for years,” City Solicitor Adrienne G. Southgate said at a recent meeting of the council’s ordinance committee. “Fundamentally, it wasn’t clear whose responsibility it was,” she explained later. The issue briefly sharpened during the election year of 2008, she recalled, when there was a behind-the-scenes quarrel about whose duty it was to remove leftover political campaign signs in compliance with a related ordinance on those signs. John Nickelson, who was DPW director at the time, personally went out and collected a bunch of signs well after Election Day. The campaign sign ordinance says a candidate has 30 days after an election to take down his or her signs, but some don’t obey. As for other kinds of advertising and notices posted illegally on poles, posts, fences and trees, Narducci pointed out that those offering to buy or sell a service or an item always contain a telephone number. “I respect what the police do,” Narducci said. But he wondered aloud, “Why is it hard to call up” and hound the advertisers into compliance. Maj. Hugh T. Clements Jr., commander of the Police Department Uniformed Division, said the police are willing to act. “Our focus is on violent crime, nuisance crimes and quality-of-life crimes,” Clements said. “If this has become such a nuisance, then this is something else that we’ll put on our radar and try to enforce.” Narducci said the illegal posting is a public safety hazard, not just an eyesore. He recalled an accident in which a motorist emerged from a side street onto Charles Street and nosed his car out too far to see around a wide sign that was attached to a pole and was blocking his line of sight. Another vehicle collided with his and the motorist suffered broken ribs. The council passed the amendments and Mayor David N. Cicilline signed them into law Thursday.[/QUOTE]
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