Resources

Electronic Digital Billboards

Scenic America’s Digital Billboard page

Fact Sheets

Billboard Costs

Scenic Byways Map

Protected Roads

Billboard Control Philosophically and Legally

Why Subsidize Billboards?

County Billboard Facts

Billboard and Sign Regulation in Texas-Recent Cases and Trends

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 Regulation

City Statutes

Local Government Code, Chapter 216 ETJ

Illegal Signs (aka, bandit signs) in the Public Right-of-Way

Highway Beautification On State Highway Right-of-Way

Outdoor Signs on Public Right-of-Way

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

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

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

Vance Jackson Neighborhood, Inc.

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

Visual Clutter of Overhead Wires

See more at Scenic America