Billboard Insider reported in its December 27th edition on the recent decision in StreetMediaGroup and Turnpike Media vs Colorado DOT. This December 6, 2021 opinion from the US District Court for the District of Colorado is extremely important, as it represents the next development in the long running saga of […]
During the last week, Billboard Insider published a couple articles on related Constitutional clauses. First, Insider reminded us in What the Senate Said About Amortization while cautioning that the regulatory concept had actually been enacted into an ordinance by Wenatchee, Washington last year. Wenatchee and other governmental entities utilize the amortization […]
Yesterday, I reported on Part 1 of the Tennessee Billboard Law Fix, under which Governor Bill Lee signed into law an amendment to Tennessee’s Highway Beautification Act, thereby “curing” the First Amendment defects found by the District and Circuit Courts in Thomas vs Bright. However, while the Tennessee Act is […]
As Billboard Insider reported in its June 25th edition, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law last week HB 2255, which is designed to fix the First Amendment challenges to Tennessee’s version of the Highway Beautification Act raised in the Thomas vs Bright case. Thomas secured rulings from the Federal […]
NNY360 and wwnytv.com report that Watertown NY and the State of New York are at odds over a plan to put two digital billboards on the Court Street Building in Watertown. The State DOT says the sign will violate the Highway Beautification Act because the sign is along Black River […]
By Nancy Fletcher OAAA President and CEO As OAAA welcomes new leadership in the fall, I want to take this opportunity at the halfway point of 2019 to share with you “must-know” news about the OOH industry and OAAA. OAAA’s new leader Soon the OAAA Search Committee plans to make […]
By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA Illinois’ Department of Transportation has asked a home-state congressman to change federal law to allow states to exit the Fifties-era “Bonus Program” without penalty. The Bonus Act, a precursor to the Highway Beautification Act of 1965, provided federal incentive money to […]
New federal legislation lays out a public-policy rationale for vegetation control on public lands: safety, fire prevention, and protection of electric-power lines. Vegetation-control legislation was included in a massive spending bill signed March 23 by President Trump. The President said he signed the overall bill reluctantly, in order to […]
President Trump’s infrastructure plan calls for a shift from federal control and funding to states and localities. The 53-page plan released by The White House February 12 did not specifically target the Bonus Program. However, on Page 23, the plan encouraged states to repay federal highway funds for the […]
By Ken Klein, Executive Vice President, OAAA. A long-running tiff between New York State and the feds over signs on the highway right of way symbolizes a broader tug of war: should existing rules be liberalized or not? In New York State, the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo spent $8 […]
