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Fayette No Pamphlets or Printed Matter Shall Be Distributed Free of Cost ordinance (§ 210.1160)

Chapter 210: Offenses · Article XI. Miscellaneous Offenses

A. In order to promote the health, peace and safety of the inhabitants of the City of Fayette, and to protect said inhabitants against an intolerable annoyance and nuisance, the distribution, delivering, scattering or passing out of handbills, printed advertisements, programs, announcements, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, booklets, and printed matter or papers of every other kind and description from house to house or from person to person within the corporate limits of the City of Fayette, free of cost to the person receiving or intended to receive them, is hereby declared to be unlawful.

B. Every person, firm, association or corporation or the agent or representative of any of them, who shall distribute or cause to be distributed, deliver or cause to be delivered, scatter or cause to be scattered, pass out or cause to be passed out any handbill, printed advertisement, programs, announcements, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, booklets, printed matter or papers of every other kind and description from house to house or from person to person, within the corporate limits of the City of Fayette, free of cost to the person receiving or intended to receive them, shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined and/or imprisoned as set forth in Chapter 100, Article III, of this Code.

Official source: City of Fayette official Code of Ordinances (online), § 210.1160

Last checked October 30, 2026. The city's official copy controls; this page is a reading copy, not legal advice.