Pennsylvania Act 1925-388 — PROHIBITING ADVERTISING ACROSS ROADS

Act text

PROHIBITING ADVERTISING ACROSS ROADS
                  Act of May 14, 1925, P.L. 714, No. 388              Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Prohibiting the placing of any sign, banner, or advertising
        matter of any kind whatsoever on or across any public road or
        highway or on or across any structure within the legal limits
        of any public road or highway without the written consent of
        the authorities responsible for the maintenance of such
        public road or highway, and declaring the placing of any sign
        or banner in violation of this act to be a public nuisance
        and authorizing its removal with or without notice, and
        providing penalty.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 1101(24) of Act 428 of 1945
            provided that Act 388 is repealed insofar as it applies
            to State highways.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That hereafter it shall be
     unlawful to place any sign, banner, or advertising matter of any
     kind whatsoever on or across any public road or highway or on or
     across any structure within the legal limits of any public road
     or highway of this Commonwealth without first having obtained
     the written consent of the authorities responsible for the
     maintenance of such public road or highway.
        Section 2.  Any such sign, banner, or advertising matter
     placed without the consent of the authorities responsible for
     the maintenance of such public road or highway is hereby
     declared to be a violation of this act; any such sign or banner
     so placed shall be and is hereby declared to be a public
     nuisance and may be abated by the authorities responsible for
     the maintenance of the public road or highway with or without
     notice to the party or parties responsible for the placing
     thereof, and in addition thereto the parties responsible for the
     placing of such sign, banner, or advertising matter shall for
     each and every such offense forfeit and pay a sum not less than
     four dollars ($4.00) nor more than twenty dollars ($20.00). All
     money collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid
     into the treasury of the county in which said nuisance was
     perpetrated, to be used only for the construction or repair of
     public roads or highways.