Pembroke Pines Considering Making 'Snipe' Signs Illegal
PEMBROKE PINES (CBS4) – Pembroke Pines city commissioners are expected to take up the issue of 'snipe' signs during their meeting on Wednesday. We've all seen them tacked to light poles or standing on their own at intersections, or the exits to shopping centers, advertising everything from "We Buy Gold" to "Work At Home".
Now some commissioners, who say they drive down property values, want to change the law to classify them as litter.
Under current city law, the signs are illegal but only the city's eight code enforcement officers are allowed to remove them; and remove them they do – roughly 200 of these types of signs a week from public right of ways.
Under the proposed law the signs would not only be classified as litter, which means anyone can take them down, but it would also give police the right to give a court appearance notice to anyone caught putting them up.
