The Kentucky legislature has approved HB 328, a revised billboard control act to fix the previous law which a court invalidated. Yesterday the House approved an amended version by 30-6, the Senate approved the amended version by 91-3 and the measure has been delivered to the Governor. The bill amends […]
The highest court in Maryland upheld a billboard tax enacted in 2013 by the Baltimore City Council. It was a 6-1 decision. You can read the decision here. The original Ordinance required a tax, assessed annually based on the size and type of display: $15 per square foot for an […]
Yesterday Insider posted that the city of Austin is trying to get the Supreme Court to review the Austin v Reagan decision. Hamlin Cody’s Richard Hamlin has this comment: No one can be certain, or even predict, whether the Supreme Court will hear a case. The Court’s Rule 10 says […]
The City of Austin has asked the Supreme Court to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision in favor of Reagan Advertising in a digital billboard dispute. Austin’s sign code says that on-premise signs can be digitized but off premise signs can’t be digitized. Reagan sought permits to digitize billboards. Reagan and […]
By Marnie Christine Cody Ware, Attorney, Hamlin Cody Billboard Insider’s post last week (2/19), Los Angeles Considers New Billboard Rules, described proposed rules that would allow relocation and permit conversion from static to digital in “Tier 3” sign districts. At the hearing on 2/25, the Planning Commission voted against “Tier […]
A follow up from our February 25th article. The Mercury News had reported that the San Jose City Council was removing from the city’s list of top priorities plans to add new digitals signs allowing private property owners to erect free-standing billboard structures on freeway-facing sites, allowing smaller digital billboards […]
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 […]
Insider reported back in July 2020 that the City of San Jose was considering allowing up to 90 new digital billboards on private property as well as some smaller signs on public land. Though the City has had a prohibition of new billboard construction on public and private land, San […]
SB 144 which would limit the ability of municipalities to incentivize landowners to terminate billboard leases or refuse to renew billboard leases failed by in a senate vote on Monday. Here’s the bill’s language. The bill’s sponsor Senator David Hinkins introduced the legislation to prevent attempts by municipalities from paying […]
Kentucky House Approves Billboard Legislation The Kentucky House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a revised billboard-control act, in response to a constitutional (free speech) challenge to the existing law. Insider provides a quick update: Federal courts have ruled against Kentucky’s billboard law because it distinguished between on-premise and off-premise signs. State […]
