[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1121 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1121

   To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the control of 
  outdoor advertising in areas adjacent to the Interstate System, the 
National Highway System, and certain other federally assisted highways, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               August 4 (legislative day, July 10), 1995

Mr. Jeffords (for himself and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environmental and 
                              Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend title 23, United States Code, to improve the control of 
  outdoor advertising in areas adjacent to the Interstate System, the 
National Highway System, and certain other federally assisted highways, 
                        and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONTROL OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.

    Section 131 of title 23, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the first sentence of subsection (d), by striking 
        ``, or in unzoned'' and all that follows through ``Secretary'';
            (2) by redesignating subsection (t) as subsection (v); and
            (3) by inserting after subsection (s) the following:
    ``(t) State Inventory of Outdoor Advertising Signs, Displays, and 
Devices.--
            ``(1) Requirement.--For the purpose of subsection (b), a 
        State shall not be considered to have made provision for 
        effective control of the erection and maintenance of outdoor 
        advertising signs, displays, and devices unless the State 
        maintains, and annually submits to the Secretary, an inventory 
        of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in the 
        State for which the effective control is required under this 
        section, including a specification of whether each sign, 
        display, or device is illegal, nonconforming, or conforming 
        under State law.
            ``(2) State scenic byways.--The State inventory required by 
        paragraph (1) shall identify each sign, display, or device 
        described in paragraph (1) that is located along a highway on 
        the Interstate System or Federal-aid primary system designated 
        as a scenic byway under a program of the State described in 
        subsection (s).
    ``(u) Limitation on Vegetation Removal.--For the purpose of 
subsection (b), a State shall not be considered to have made provision 
for effective control of the erection and maintenance of outdoor 
advertising signs, displays, and devices if the State carries out or 
permits the removal of vegetation in, or other alteration of, a right-
of-way referred to in subsection (b) for the purpose of improving the 
visibility of any outdoor advertising sign, display, or device located 
outside the right-of-way.''.
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