1514 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 352
CHAPTER 852.
(Senate Bill 53)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections
335, 338 and 339 of Article 56 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses", sub-title "Out-
door Advertising", relating to billboards or signs and dis-
play advertising along the public highways.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted l)y the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 335, 338 and 339 of Article 56 of the
Annotated Code of Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Licenses",
sub-title "Outdoor Advertising", be and the same are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

335. Every person, firm or corporation hereafter desiring to
erect or maintain billboards or other similar structures, signs,
posters or display advertising of any kind whatsoever, outside
of the corporate limits of any city, town or village, and within
five hundred (500) feet of a public highway of the State of
Maryland, shall file with the State Roads Commission the fol-
lowing information, data and plats concerning and explaining
the proposed location of any such billboards, or other similar
structures, signs, posters or other display advertising:

(a) A statement signed by the applicant naming the county,
election district, and the approximate distance from the
nearest town, village or city where the billboards or other
similar structures, signs, posters or other advertising displays
are proposed to be placed and stating whether or not the pro-
posed location is within a district over which the Legislature
has granted to any board or body the power to create zoning
areas and if said proposed location be within any such district,
the name of such district.

(b) The dimensions and the area in square feet of advertising
surface on each of said billboards or other similar structures,
signs, posters or other display advertising, the height of such
advertisement from the ground, the material used in its con-
struction and the distance from the nearest public highway.
The area of any such advertisement shall comprise the number
of square feet contained within a line drawn around the outer
edge of the advertising matter and pictorial design displayed.

(c) A plat which shall satisfy the State Roads Commission
that it shows accurately:

(1) The proposed location of said billboard or other similar
structure, sign, poster or display advertising with reference
to the location of any State highway within a radius of five
hundred (500) feet of such proposed advertisement.