As part of court-ordered community service for illegally posting hundreds of promotional signs, the owner of a suburban plumbing company is required to remove similar placards in Detroit Suburban business owner William Shaw removes illegally posted signs Friday, June 28, 2024, in Detroit, from a street corner in as part of court-ordered community service.
“They’re not going to back down,” Shaw said of Detroit blight enforcement officials as he yanked signs Friday morning from utility and other poles on the city’s northwest side. The city said that from February 2022 to July 2023, it removed more than 615 “Shaw’s Plumbing” signs. William Shaw has been cited with more than 50 misdemeanors because of it.Detroit is banning gas stations from locking customers inside, a year after a fatal shootingA judge ordered Shaw to serve 40 hours of community service with the city’s Blight Remediation Division. Part of that includes removing signs illegally posted by others.
“I was putting up signs in the city of Detroit to promote business illegally, not knowing that I was doing that,” he told The Associated Press. “We put up a lot to promote business. We did it elsewhere in other surrounding cities, as well. And we paid fines in other surrounding cities, as well as Detroit.”