LICENSES 2443

Outdoor Advertising.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 274.

332. From and after June 1, 1931, no person, firm or corporation,
resident or non-resident of this State, shall engage in the business generally
known as outdoor advertising for profit gained from rentals or other com-
pensation received for the erection, use or maintenance of billboards, or
any other structures, signs, posters or display advertising of any kind or
nature whatsoever, upon real property, without a license having first been
obtained from the State Roads Commission of Maryland to engage in
such business, for which the said firm, person or corporation shall pay an
annual license fee for the use of the State of $200.00; provided, however,
that a person, firm, or corporation maintaining not more than fifty bill-
boards, signs, posters, or other structures for display advertising, shall
pay an annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and that the licenses
first issued under this section shall be dated June 1, 1931, and shall ex-
pire on the 30th day of April succeeding, and the charge therefor shall
be $183.25, unless the applicant engages in business in any month sub-
sequent to June 1, 1931, when a ratable sum shall be charged. There-
after, all licenses, shall be dated May 1st and shall expire the following
April 30th and the full fee shall be charged therefor except when the
applicant engages in the business in any other month subsequent to May
1st when such license shall be issued from such month and a ratable sum
charged therefor.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 275.

333. Every application for license required by Section 332 of this
sub-title shall be made on a form to be furnished by the State Roads Com-
mission and shall state the full name and post office address of the appli-
cant, as well as other relevant information required by said State Roads
Commission during the consideration of any application for a license.
Every person, firm or corporation obtaining a license in pursuance of
Section 332 of this sub-title shall also obtain a permit and pay a fee there-
for for the use of the State for the erection, maintenance or use of each
billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other display advertising used,
or to be used as provided in Section 335 of this sub-title, provided the pro-
posed location of the said billboard or other structure, sign, poster or other
display advertising be outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city,
town or village and within five hundred (500) feet of a public highway of
the State of Maryland.

1931, ch. 324, sec. 276.

334. No person, firm or corporation not engaged in the business of
outdoor advertising for profit, shall, after the first day of June, 1931,
erect, or maintain outside the corporate limits of any city, town or village
and within five hundred (500) feet of a public highway of the State of
Maryland, any billboard or other structure or signs, posters or display
advertising of any kind whatsoever, without a permit for that purpose
from the State Roads Commission as provided in the following section of
this sub-title.