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Article: Yard sale signs can be illegal; Owner must give OK for use on either public, private property.(NEWS)
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- Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2009
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Byline: Elaine Thompson
The annual fall yard sale is so all-American that for most people who attend them they mean a fun-filled bargain-shopping affair. .
But what many who have yard sales may not know is that advertising them, or other events, on utility poles, public property or another person's property is illegal, as well as a messy nuisance.
A state law, section 126 of Chapter 266 of Massachusetts General Laws, makes it a crime to paint or affix "any words, device, trade mark, advertisement or notice" onto any "fence, structure, pole, rock or other object" on either public or private property without permission of the owner. Violations are ...