By Richard Hamlin and Marnie Cody, Hamlin|Cody Law Firm Constructive notice can become important when property subject to a billboard lease is sold, refinanced, or otherwise transferred. The issue is not limited to whether a new owner personally reviewed the lease. It concerns whether the circumstances were sufficient to place […]
California Out of Home attorney Richard Hamlin of the Hamlin|Cody law firm comments on Billboard Permit rights run with the land. We are especially interested in his thoughts on tortious interference. This is an issue for all of you who talk to landlords or who are approached by landlords who […]
Billboard Insider wants to make sure readers know yesterdays’ article on the Verde Renfroe legal dispute was by Richard Hamlin of Hamlin|Cody. We mistakenly attributed the article to Richard Rothfelder of Rothfelder & Falick. We corrected the error after a couple hours but want to make sure credit is given […]
Yesterday Billboard Insider noted that some states and municipalities require you to get a permit to take down a billboard. Out of home legal expert Richard Rothfelder, the author of Rothfelder and Falick on Billboard Law will address this issue next week. In the meantime, California out of home attorney […]
Richard Hamlin and Marnie Cody of the Hamlin|Cody Law Firm gave Billboard Insider excellent feedback on Easements provide more protection than leases against tax foreclosure. California attorney Marnie Cody gives a summary analysis… California law is even more explicit than Michigan. Under CA Revenue and Taxation Code §3712(d) the tax […]
Editors note. Our article about the Los Angeles Sign Ordinance included a picture of signs along Hollywood Blvd. We apologize to anyone who read the article as suggesting that any of the signs in the picture is an illegal sign. That wasn’t our intent. We have removed the picture from […]
What’s a little known law which is about to impose more reporting requirements on your private out of home company? The answer is FINCEN’s Beneficial Ownership Information filing requirements. FINCEN is a fancy acronym which stands for the US Tresury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Effective December 31, 2024 most private […]
The usual out of home industry legal practice is to record a memorandum of lease as opposed to the full lease in order not to disclose proprietary details to competitors or other landlords in a market. A Billboard Insider Reader asked “Is there potential for a lawsuit if a new […]
In response to Andy Goodman’s article on Abatement Clauses, we would just add that the CalTrans case is obviously not the only time (or state law to consider) when visibility issues and abatement can become an issue in billboard leases. There are several reasons to have a good abatement clause […]
I received a call from a client who has billboards on a state highway in California. His concern and questions are in regard to a Cal Trans construction project that will close the entire section of freeway in front of his billboards for 6 months or longer. He wanted to […]
