CopyCited 12 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 1979 Fla. App. LEXIS 14026
...As originally enacted in 1941, Chapter 479 comprehensively regulated both persons *104 engaged in the outdoor advertising business and individual advertising signs near highways, whether or not owned by persons in the advertising business. "Licenses" to engage in the business were issuable under Section
479.04, whereas "individual device permits" were issuable under Section
479.07....
...y the Department, "corresponding in color to the automobile license plate of the State of Florida for the current year." Section 479.09, Florida Statutes (1941). In 1963 the legislature repealed Section 479.09, incorporated some of its provisions in Section 479.04, and there provided that each sign be identified by a "serially numbered metal permit tag which shall indicate the year for which the permit is valid," issued upon payment of the renewal fee....
...eclare "a public and private nuisance" any sign maintained in violation of Chapter 479, and continued to admonish the Department to remove it "forthwith" unless the sign was worth more than $100 and the owner "holds an unexpired license issued under s. 479.04," in which case the owner was entitled to 30 days' notice and an opportunity, not to pay past due permit fees, but to show that his sign "does not violate the provisions of this chapter." In 1978, after the present controversy concerning Mr....
...Section
479.08, Florida Statutes (1977). [8] When a *110 sign became unlawful because of the expiration of its annual permit, Section 479.17 accorded no right of hearing unless the sign was worth $100 or more "and said owner holds an unexpired license issued under s.
479.04," the section licensing persons in the outdoor advertising business....
...curring any liability therefor; provided, however, that if any outdoor advertising structure or outdoor advertising sign of the value of $100 or more bears thereon the name of the owner thereof, and said owner holds an unexpired license issued under s. 479.04 the said owner shall be given written notice of the alleged violation, and shall have 30 days after the receipt thereof within which to show that the said advertisement, advertising sign or advertising structure does not violate the provisions of this chapter....
