J. MILLARD TAWES, GOVERNOR                               149

CHAPTER 130
(House Bill 13)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 231,
232 and 233 of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1958 Supplement), title "State Roads", sub-title "Outdoor
Advertising Along Expressways Generally", prohibiting certain
billboards, signs or advertising structures within a distance within
six hundred sixty (660) feet from the right-of-way line of any
expressway within the State, making provision for the application
and enforcement of this law relating generally to certain forms
of outdoor advertising adjacent to expressways within this State.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 231, 232 and 233 of Article 89B of the Annotated
Code of Maryland (1958 Supplement), title "State Roads", sub-title
"Outdoor Advertising Along Expressways Generally", be and they
are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, and to read
as follows:

231.   Prohibited within six hundred sixty feet of expressway.
No person, firm or corporation shall, after June 1, [1958] 1959,
lease, rent or permit the use of his, her or its property within [six
hundred (600)] six hundred sixty (660) feet of the right of way
line of any expressway within the State for the purpose of erecting
thereon any billboard, sign or advertising structure of any kind
except as hereinafter provided.

232.    Exceptions.

Any lease which shall have been executed prior to June 1, 1958,
for the aforementioned purposes and, applying to property within
six hundred (600) feet of the right of way line of any expressway,
shall become null and void for the purpose for which the lease
was made on June 1, 1961 £,]; any lease which shall have been
executed prior to June 1, 1959, for the aforementioned purposes
and applying to property more than six hundred (600) feet and
not in excess of six hundred and sixty (660) feet from the right
of way line of any expressway, shall become null and void for the
purpose for which the lease was made on June 1, 1962; and after
either said date the continuation of any advertising structure on
the land so leased shall become unlawful, except nothing herein
shall be deemed to prevent a property owner from erecting adver-
tising signs on his own property advertising the sale or lease of
said property or the sale of produce grown or made thereon or a
service performed thereon or therein, provided the owner shall first
obtain a permit therefor from the State Roads Commission. The
State Roads Commission shall grant such permit upon application,
without charge therefor, however, said Commission shall have the
authority to regulate the location and the size of the advertising
sign or signs and said regulations shall be consistent with and in

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.

[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.