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Resources Sitemap Accessibility Help Center. Compare to: - No Earlier Versions -. Cleveland Overview. Cleveland, OH Code of Ordinances. Share Download Bookmark Print. The sign contains the name and telephone number or website address of the candidate or campaign committee contact person. If the city, town or county deems that the placement of a political sign constitutes an emergency, the jurisdiction may immediately relocate the sign. The jurisdiction shall notify the candidate or campaign committee that placed the sign within twenty-four hours after the relocation.
If a sign is placed in violation of subsection C of this section and the placement is not deemed to constitute an emergency, the city, town or county may notify the candidate or campaign committee that placed the sign of the violation. If the sign remains in violation at least twenty-four hours after the jurisdiction notified the candidate or campaign committee, the jurisdiction may remove the sign. The jurisdiction shall contact the candidate or campaign committee contact and shall retain the sign for at least ten business days to allow the candidate or campaign committee to retrieve the sign without penalty.
The returning officer and other election officers will use their discretion to determine whether partisan material must be removed from a polling place. Section of the Canada Elections Act states that, during an election period, no one may interfere with the transmission of election advertising such as a campaign sign.
If you are not sure whether the sign is on private or public property, check with your municipality or other government agency. Property owners do not have the right to prevent tenants from putting up election signs on the premises they lease in an apartment building during an election period. Condominium corporations do not have the right to prevent condo owners from putting up election signs on the units they own during an election period. However, property owners and condominium corporations do have the right to set reasonable conditions on the size and type of sign and to prohibit signs in common areas, whether indoors or outdoors see section of the Canada Elections Act.
The term "common areas" refers to an area or areas that may be used by all occupants of, and visitors to, a building e. It does not apply to areas that are part of the premises of the unit and not accessible to other building residents, such as balconies.
The Canada Elections Act does not affect the right of private residential property owners to control who enters their property or anything placed on it. If a sign has been placed on your private residential property without your permission, the Canada Elections Act does not prevent you from removing it.
You may wish to contact the candidate or registered party whose sign it is to tell them you did not request the sign and to ask them to remove it. If you are not sure whether the sign is on private or public property, check with the municipality or other government agency.
To make a complaint or an allegation of wrongdoing about election signs displayed during a federal election, please write to the Commissioner of Canada Elections. How to make a complaint to the Commissioner of Canada Elections. The Canada Elections Act does not regulate signs outside of an election, so the Commissioner does not accept complaints about the posting of election signs outside of an election period.
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