Highway Beautification Act

Summary

Highway Beautification Act - 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 appropriations through fiscal year 1976 for the control of outdoor advertising and the control of junkyards.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 12 March 1974

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