Resources

Electronic Digital Billboards

Traffic Safety Evaluation of Video Advertising Signs

Scenic America's Digital Billboard page

StopBillboards.com Digital Billboard page

Health Effects of Light Pollution

Could your city become another L.A.? Watch this 3 part PBS series and find out if digital billboards and wall wraps are prohibited in your community:
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Fact Sheets

Texas Cities With No New Billboards

County Billboard Facts

Map of Protected Roads

List of Protected Roads

Billboard Control Philosophically and Legally

Billboard Costs

Why subsidize billboards?

Scenic Byways 2005

Scenic Byways Map

Texas Sign Laws

Interstates and Federal Highways

Texas Transportation Code Chapter 391

Title 43 Chapter 21, Subchapter I, Texas Regulations

Rural Roads

Texas Transportation Code Chapter 394 rural roads

Title 43 Chapter 21, Subchapter K, Texas Regulations

City Statutes

Local Govt Code Chap 216 ETJ

Illegal Signs (aka, bandit signs) in the Public ROW

Transportation Code Chapter 392 illegal signs state ROW

Transportation Code Chapter 393 illegal signs public ROW

Toll Roads

Transportation Code Chapter 395 certain county toll roads

Billboard Complaints TxDOT Form

To report the erection of an alleged illegal billboard to TxDOT, please visit this link to the TxDOT site. Thank you for helping to keep our public roads scenic.

TxDOT Outdoor Advertising Billboard Complaint Forms, Contacts, Booklet, Rules, Other Forms

Click here to find more information on Texas outdoor advertising rules, district and TxDOT contacts, and to report a suspected erection or maintenance of illegal billboards

Additional Sign Laws

Sign Law.com - the latest case law around the country on sign regulation and public forum

Scenic Florida's Case Law Page

Quotes, Speeches and Video Essays on America the Beautiful

A video from the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations

A Visual Essay by Scenic America on Urban Sign Pollution

What's a world without outdoor advertising? See this video of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Eisenhower Notes for Association of National Advertisers

A speech by President Lyndon Baines Johnson from October 22, 1965

"The Goodliest Land" Address by Charles Kuralt at Scenic America’s National Conference - May 12, 1997

Listen to President L.B. Johnson speak frankly about the billboard industry in a 1968 conversation with Congressman Jim Wright

Other applicable quotes

Vance Jackson Neighborhood, Inc.

Vance Jackson Neighborhood, Inc., a homeowners association in San Antonio: http://www.vjni.org/

Visual Clutter of Overhead Wires

Live Oaks Under Power Lines Work

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