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  • 12-08-2004 10:01am
    #1
    LegacyUser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166,026 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello

    I am on the committee of a youth/sports organisation based in the Louth area. we are holding an event soon and had posters made up for the occassion.

    ! of the lads from the club took some of these posters and stuck them up around the local town, on bill boards and the likes. I recently got a letter to inform me that I was being fined €120 per poster that they found as it was a littering offense. What am I to do ??

    There is an appeal process that we can go through and the appeal form is on its way to me. We are a non profit, non goverment funded organisation, e have no funds or backing to pay the loan.

    Has anyone and ideas as to what I should do here

    thanks you all.

    concerned.


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  • #2
    ChipZilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭ChipZilla


    If somebody's ripped the posters down and left them on the ground (or they somehow found their way to the ground) you could quite rightly be done for littering. Or you've put posters somewhere other than a notice board and the owner of the property has complained...

    http://www.oasis.gov.ie/environment/litter_law.html
    Posters and signs

    The law forbids the putting up of posters/signs on poles or other structures in public places unless you have the written permission of the owner of the pole or other structure in advance of putting up the posters/signs and requires that an article or advertisement must carry the name and address of the person:
      who is promoting or arranging the meeting or event being advertised, or
      in any other case, on whose behalf the article or advertisement is being exhibited.

    Following an election, a party/candidate must remove posters within a seven day period. After that date, a local authority may prosecute for breaches of the litter laws. The maximum penalty in the District Court following conviction is 3,000 euro.


  • #3
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,396 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Was your name on the posters or how are they fining you directly?

    There's always the argument to be made that it was the club that put up the posters, not yourself and that the club should face the fine, declare the organisation bankrupt and set up under another name ;)


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