Commonwealth, Transportation Cabinet, Department of Highways v. Wayfara, Inc.

WILHOIT, Judge.

These consolidated appeals are from judgments of the Hardin, Hart, and LaRue Circuit Courts dismissing the appellant’s actions by which it sought fines and removal of billboards erected near an interstate highway before 1976 and renovated in 1981 allegedly in violation of the “Billboard Act” (KRS 177.830 through 177.890) as it read in 1981.

*212The only question raised is whether an amendment to the Billboard Act enacted by the General Assembly in 1990 as House Bill No. 816 changing the definition of “urban area” should be given retroactive effect so as to authorize the continued…