HB 1344 Summary

• Prohibits outdoor advertising devices (signs) along highways that impair, impede, or interfere with views of historic landmarks listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

• Requires owners to remove any existing non-compliant signs within 6 months of the law's effective date, with the Department of Transportation authorized to remove them if owners fail to do so.

• Grants the Transportation Commission final authority to determine which outdoor advertising devices violate the law's provisions.

• Applies retroactively to signs already in existence at the time of enactment.

• Becomes effective July 1, 2011, with an emergency clause for immediate implementation.