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 lawmakers in Kentucky are moving toward changing the billboard law, to comply with the new legal standard in the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee). 
• On February 22, the Kentucky House voted 93-2 for new billboard controls (HB328); the measure now goes to the state Senate.
• Like legislative remedies to legal challenges in other states, Kentucky’s legislation would regulate signs involving “compensation,” defined in the Kentucky legislation as:

“Compensation” means the exchange of anything of value, including money, securities, real property interests, personal property interests, goods or services, promises of future payments, or forbearance of debt.

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