State ex rel. National Advertising Co. v. State Highway & Transportation Commission

PRITCHARD, Judge.

This case involves the order of removal of two advertising signs adjacent to Interstate Highway 44 in St. Louis County upon the ground that they were in violation of § 226.540(3)(a)a. RSMo 1978, relating to the spacing of signs erected after March 30, 1972: “No sign structure shall be hereafter erected within five hundred feet of an existing sign on the same side of the highway.”

The previous enactment of this billboard law, § 226.540 RSMo 1969, provided that no two sign structures facing in the same direction could be spaced less than 150 feet apart unless separated by a…