Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1920 — Home Town Helps [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Home Town Helps

TO LEVY TAX ON BILLBOARDS Commission Recommends That Massachusetts Legislature Get Revenue From Advertising Devices. Taxation of billboards and all other kinds of outdoor advertising devices, as well as regulations of' their size, location and manner of construction, is recommended in the report of the special billboard commission submitted to the legislature. The only advertising signs exempt from the legislation recommended by the commission are those which have been erected in conformity with existing law arid which call attentlon to the person occupying the premises on which the sign appears or to the business . that is done on these premises, or advertising the property itself or any part thereof as for sale or to let; For all other signs, the commission recommended that an annual excise tax be levied, the amount to be determined by the division of highways of the public works department, having in mind in each case the location of such sign or device, the character of the neighborhood, the pumber and class of persons usually passing within reasonable distance of the sign, and such other factors as in the judgment of the members of the division will give to a sign In that particular location a particular value for advertising purposes.-r-Boston Transcript.