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House rejects third substitute to rewrite outdoor-advertising law after hourslong debate on billboard compensation and local control
Summary
After intense floor debate and multiple amendments, the House refused the third substitute of Senate Bill 14, which would have rewritten the Outdoor Advertising Act; debate centered on compensation formulas for billboard takings, tax treatment and whether the bill preempted local land-use authority.
The Utah House of Representatives on March 5, 1997, failed to accept the third substitute of Senate Bill 14, a lengthy measure to amend the state’s Outdoor Advertising Act that drew extended floor debate over how billboards should be valued and whether state rules would displace local control.
Representative Becker, who offered an amendment restoring language the sponsor said was in the original statute, framed the issue as fairness in compensation and tax treatment for signs. Becker argued that current Utah practice allowed billboard owners to claim contiguous and noncontiguous property when…
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