Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 320, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1920 — Primer on Billboards. [ARTICLE]

Primer on Billboards.

A iltle primer -on the city and Its billboard problem: “Haven’t the property owners a right to do as they please with their property?” i The United States Supreme court said in a decision in 1908: “The state as quasi sovereign and representative of the interest of the publid has a standing-in court to protect the atmosphere, the water and the forests within its territory, irrespective of the assent or dissent of the private owners immediately concerned.” V: “But does this right apply specifically to billboards?” Yea. In 1917 the Supreme court held: “A dty, excercising the police power may prohibit the erection of byboarda