{"id":2022,"date":"2013-06-06T14:52:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.mml.org\/wp\/inside208\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2013-06-06T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:52:23","slug":"digital-billboards-legislation-passes-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/06\/06\/digital-billboards-legislation-passes-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Billboards Legislation Passes House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HB 4629 passed out the full House today.\u00a0 This bill was created in most part to deal with issues that were presented to MDOT from a federal audit done on the Highway Advertising Act. If these issues (definition for digital billboards, definition for non-conforming billboard, etc) are not address, the state will lose a portion of their federal transportation funding.\u00a0 This bill was introduced last session and because of the short time frame of lame duck, didn&#8217;t pass. \u00a0This bill would allow a local unit of government to create a more stringent policy than that at the state level if they so choose to.\u00a0 We also asked that the word \u201coperation\u201d be added into what can be regulated by the local unit of government to ensure that digital billboards would be encompassed in that definition.\u00a0 The bill also changes the spacing requirements for digital billboards from 1,500 feet to 1,750 feet and to make the \u201cdwell time\u201d 8 seconds instead of 6 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The bill now moves onto the Senate for consideration in committee.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nikki Brown is a legislative associate for the League handling economic development and land use issues.\u00a0 She can be reached at nbrown@mml.org or 517-908-0305.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB 4629 passed out the full House today.\u00a0 This bill was created in most part to deal with issues that were presented to MDOT from a federal audit done on the Highway Advertising Act. 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