Meet the Man Who Caught Cop on Camera Forcibly Removing His Pro-Gun Sign

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I looked up my city's ordinances for yard signs and this is what I found.  In my city there is a 15 foot city right-of-way measured from the street curb.  The city owns it and I am required maintain it.

Placement of signs on right-of-way or public land.

(1) No sign other than governmental signs shall be erected or placed for any period of time within or upon any public land except as may be authorized in this subsection.

(2) Only governmental signs, signs for a rummage sale posted no more than 120 hours in any eight-day period and signs advertising the sale of real estate between the hours of 6:00 p.m. Friday to 6:00 a.m. Monday may be erected or placed within any public right-of-way or easement. No nongovernmental sign shall be placed in a public right-of-way abutting private property unless permission to place such a sign is first obtained from the owner, occupant or other person having control of the abutting private property.

(3) Any sign other than governmental signs remaining on such property in excess of 120 hours in any eight-day period, or placed for any length of time in violation of subsection (2) of this subsection, may be summarily removed by the city or other governmental agency owning such public right-of-way or easement and, at its discretion, destroyed.

This only applies to PUBLIC land, not private.
Here in Laconia if it is on the street side of the side walk it's city property.
My land lord just got a LARGE half dead maple tree taken down for free.