Amortization – the ability of a state or municipality to require a billboard company to take down a billboard after a fixed period of time without compensation – rears its ugly head from time to time. Wenatchee, Washington passed an amortization law last year. Amortization was a hotly debated topic […]
Wednesday we ran a post about the successful effort to defeat draconian anti-billboard legislation in the (federal) 1991 Highway Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. Our united industry convinced the US Senate to remove the anti-billboard provisions; the bipartisan vote was 60-39. Today we’re publishing excerpts from Senator Barbara Mikulski’s articulate support […]
