Piros Signs, Inc. v. Missouri Highway & Transportation Commission

CARL R. GAERTNER, Presiding Judge.

Piros Signs, Inc. appeals from a judgment upholding the determination by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission that an outdoor advertising sign Piros erected was, under provisions of the Missouri Billboard Act, an unlawful “sign structure” subject to removal without compensation. We affirm.

The Missouri Billboard Act, § 226.500-226.600, RSMo.1978, regulates “the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary highway systems.” § 226.500. A “thing designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform” is…