In re Anderson

Pound, C.

Section 50, chapter 12®, Compiled Statutes, 1901 (Annotated Statutes, 7199), governing cities of the metropolitan class, provides, among other things, that the mayor and council may by ordinance regulate and prohibit “the distribution or posting of advertisements or handbills in the street or public grounds, or upon the sidewalks.” Pursuant to this statutory authority, the city of Omaha adopted an ordinance, known as No. 3113, in the following terms:

“It is hereby declared unlawful for any person or persons to circulate or distribute upon any of the public streets, alleys, sideAvalks,…