SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILLS NOS. 582 & 706
89TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
S2563.02C
AN ACT
To repeal section 71.288, RSMo Supp. 1997, relating to the regulation of billboards, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 71.288, RSMo Supp. 1997, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 71.288, to read as follows:
71.288. 1. [Any city that maintains the city engineer or other similar city official on the planning commission shall have the authority to place any restriction upon the height, spacing and lighting of outdoor advertising structures placed within the view of any highway within the city. Such ordinance may be more restrictive than sections 226.500 to 226.600, RSMo] Any city or county shall have the authority to adopt regulations with respect to outdoor advertising that are more restrictive than the size, lighting and spacing provisions of sections 226.500 to 226.600, RSMo.
2. No city [that elects to govern outdoor advertising structures as provided in subsection 1] or county shall have the authority to impose a fee of more than five hundred dollars for the initial inspection of an outdoor advertising structure, nor may the city or county impose a business tax on an outdoor advertising structure of more than one hundred dollars per year.