Highway Beautification Act

Summary

Highway Beautification Act - States that the provisions of law relating to the control of outdoor advertising, junkyards, and allocation of funds for the scenic enhancement with respect to Federal-aid primary highways shall be applicable to Federal-aid urban systems. Provides for a ten percent reduction in Federal-aid highway funds to States apportioned on or after January 1, 1975, unless specified outdoor advertising is effectively controlled. Defines the term "effective control" for purposes of this Act. Provides that in order to promote the reasonable, orderly, and effective display of outdoor advertising while remaining consistent with the purposes of this Act, signs, displays, and devices whose size, lighting, and spacing, consistent with customary use is to be determined by agreement between the several States and the Secretary of Transportation may be erected and maintained within areas adjacent to the Interstate and primary systems which are zoned industrial or commercial under authority of State law, or in unzoned commercial or industrial areas as may be determined by agreement between the several States and the Secretary." Authorizes specified appropriations through fiscal year 1976 for the control of outdoor advertising, the control of junkyards, and landscaping and scenic enhancement on applicable highway systems. Provides that no directional sign, display, or device lawfully in existence on June 1, 1972, giving specific information in the interest of the traveling public shall be required to be removed until December 31, 1975, or until the State in which the sign, display, or device is located certifies that the directional information about the service or activity advertised on such sign, display, or device may reasonably be available to motorists by some other method or methods, whichever shall occur first.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 4 April 1974

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