New rule bans flyers on cars

oiseau

Businesses that slap their handbill ads on car windshields are about to get slapped back a little harder.
Starting today, a law signed by Gov. Pataki in August prohibits putting ads anywhere on a vehicle.

The measure broadens a two-year-old state statute that made it illegal to place flyers and advertisement postcards on windshields, under wiper blades or rear windows.

The law holds "any person or group whose name, telephone numbers or other identifying information" on the handbill liable. The fine will continue to be $75 for each handbill.

Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty said the stiffer rules will go a long way toward cutting littering by irate motorists who toss the ads onto the street.

Motorists who find handbills can call the city's 311 hotline to alert the Sanitation Department, said department spokesman Keith Mellis.


The question is, is this just another law that will not be enforced?

jamesondean

When the Sanitation Dept. starts getting about a zillion 311 calls, they'll quickly shift responsibility to the DA's office (or some such), and then you'll start seeing some results. Give it a year or two. Word needs to get out.

smokin joe

ok, now if we can get the legislature to pass a law fining the people who dump spam on our stoops, lobbies, doorways, and mailboxes.

wait a minute! maybe if we throw it all in the street so it becomes a litter problem. . .

muteflute

...then you'd get arrested, not them.

although, in my neck of the woods, most of that stuff does end up on the street, so maybe I'm wrong.

anonymous

JamesOnDean wrote: When the Sanitation Dept. starts getting about a zillion 311 calls, they'll quickly shift responsibility to the DA's office (or some such), and then you'll start seeing some results. Give it a year or two. Word needs to get out.

I think that the DA's Office has far more important things to worry about like prosecuting criminal, don't you?