Arkansas State Highway Commission v. White Advertising International

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the Administrative Procedure Act, Title 5, Chapter 7 (Repl. 1976), is applicable to decisions by the Arkansas State Highway Commission to grant or deny permits for outdoor advertising signs. No evidence was taken in this case and the lower court made its decision on the pleadings alone. Those pleadings establish that the appellee, White Advertising, held nine permits to erect and maintain outdoor advertising signs no closer than 660 feet from the right-of-way of Interstate 55 near Blytheville. The permits for the signs were issued by…