Mobile Billboard Ban Under Consideration

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by Don

relating to mobile billboard advertising displays .

any mobile billboard advertising

(a) No person shall park a mobile billboard advertising
display in a public place within a city or county, other than a
parking lot or parking garage.
(b) For purposes of this chapter, "[I]mobile billboard advertising
display"[/I] means any advertising display that is attached to a wheeled
conveyance, or is otherwise mobile, that carries, pulls, or
transports any sign or billboard for the primary purpose of
advertising.


The prohibition contained in subdivision (a) shall not apply
to a vehicle that displays an advertisement or identifies the
business of its owner, so long as the vehicle to which the
advertising display is attached is engaged in the usual business or
regular work of the owner and is not parked for the primary purpose
of advertising.


By its language the bill is limited to "advertising." This is commercial speech, not political speech.

I only see this as slightly better but not much. If the state can restrict what you say when you're parked, one of the few forms of advertising that the big boys don't control yet, then small business is beholden even more to the big boys. Take a look around. Who controls all the airwaves and advertisement now. This legislation is about knocking out another form of ads for small business.