Tag: Richard Rothfelder

Outdoor Legal: Repairing Signs Damaged By Storms

Hurricanes and windstorms can damage billboards.  This can create legal issues, especially if you want to rebuild a non-conforming sign which has been damaged by hurricane.  City of Webster v SignAd is a legal case in which an out of home advertising company successfully contested a city’s efforts to prevent […]

Texas Transportation Commission Against Removing Billboard Height Restrictions.

Insider has learned that the Texas Transportation Commission voted 3 to 2 at an August 31, 2017 meeting to eliminate a proposed change by TxDOT to the state’s billboard regulations which would have removed the 42.5′ height standards for new and relocated billboards.  A 42.5′ height limit will be formally […]

Make Sure Your Lease Spells Out An End Game

By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick A good outdoor lease needs to protect your interests when a landlord terminates a lease.  Smith v Outdoor Systems 14-00-00474-CV, 2002 WL 370200 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Mar. 7, 2002, pet. denied) illustrates some end of lease issues. Introduction This is a declaratory judgment action […]