Legal Opinion
Peterson Outdoor Advertising Corp. v. Beaufort County
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Decided April 6, 1987No. 22698PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Per curiam
This is an appeal from an order which upheld a portion of a Beaufort County ordinance which regulates billboards. We dismiss the appeal as moot.
Appellant Peterson Outdoor Advertising Corporation owns a considerable number of billboards which are adjacent to public highways in Beaufort County. Peterson rents billboard space to commercial advertisers for off-premises advertising. In 1984 the Beaufort County Council passed an ordinance which prohibited off-premises commercial billboards and provided an amortization scheme for compensating owners of existing non-conforming billboards. Peterson…
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