71.288. Restrictions on outdoor advertising--fee.

Restrictions on outdoor advertising--fee.

71.288. 1. Any city or county shall have the authority to adoptregulations with respect to outdoor advertising that are more restrictivethan the height, size, lighting and spacing provisions of sections 226.500to 226.600, RSMo.

2. No city or county shall have the authority to impose a fee of morethan five hundred dollars for the initial inspection of an outdooradvertising structure, nor may the city or county impose a business tax onan outdoor advertising structure of more than two percent of the grossannual revenue produced by the outdoor advertising structure within thatcity or county.

(L. 1997 H.B. 831 § 1, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1681 & 1342 merged with S.B. 883)

(2000) Bill enacting section met constitutional requirements of single subject and clear title. C.C. Dillon Co. v. City of Eureka, 12 S.W.3d 322 (Mo.banc).