Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...permits of said licensee or permittee which were issued prior to December 1 ..." [2] See, Walker v. State, Department of Transportation, 352 So.2d 126 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977) upholding the DOT's denial of the "farm produce exemption" of Florida Statute § 479.16(2) for Walker's signs....

...2445, 129 L.Ed.2d 497 (1994). In contrast, a regulation which imposes a burden on speech without reference to the ideas or viewpoints expressed in the speech is, in a majority of instances, content-neutral. See id. Except for exemptions under sections 479.105(1)(e) [1] and 479.16, Florida Statutes (2001), section 479.07(1), Florida Statutes (2001), requires a permit before erecting any sign on the State Highway System, of which Interstate 95 is a part....

...he sign complies with all local governmental requirements and that the agency or unit of local government will issue a permit to that applicant upon approval of the state permit application by the department. § 479.07(3)(a), (b), Fla. Stat. (2001). Section 479.16 provides the following exceptions to the permitting scheme: (1) Signs erected on the premises of an establishment, which signs consist primarily of the name of the establishment or which identify the principal or accessory merchandise,...

...r outdoor advertisements erected near interstate highways. I would therefore expressly recede from that language in Brazil which allows compensation to signowners for signs illegally erected near interstate highways after December 8, 1971. NOTES [1] Section 479.16(12) excepts signs from the provisions of Ch....

...side incorporated towns and cities, no structures may be located within 500 feet of an interchange to be measured from the beginning or ending from the pavement widening. The sign here under consideration is clearly in violation of these provisions. Section 479.16 exempts from the requirement that a permit be issued for signs erected on the premises of an establishment which signs consist primarily of the name of the establishment....

...However oddly shaped the premises is, and however distant the sign is from the restaurant building, the sign is on one and the same premises or area of land occupied by the restaurant building and business it advertises, is an "on-premises" sign within the meaning of sections 479.01(13) and 479.16(1), Florida Statutes, and is exempt from the permitting provisions of chapter 479, Florida Statutes....

...Section 479.07, Florida Statutes (1987), prohibits the erection of signs on the state highway system outside an incorporated area or on any portion of the interstate or federal-aid primary highway system without a permit. Section 479.07(1) provides: Except as provided in s. 479.16, a person may not erect, operate, use, or maintain, or cause to be erected, operated, used, or maintained, any sign on the State Highway System outside an incorporated area or on any portion of the interstate or federal-aid primary highway system without first obtaining a permit for the sign from the department and paying the annual fee as provided in this section. Section 479.16, Florida Statutes (1987), sets out fourteen exemptions to the permitting requirement. Section 479.16(1) provides an exemption for an "on-premises" sign....

falls within the on-premises sign exception of section 479.16(1), Florida Statutes (1991).

...The signs were ordered removed. Petitioner contended before the hearing officer and here that his signs, which advertise the sale of pecans at a stand on a nearby intersecting highway, were excepted from the proscription of Section 479.11(1) and (2) by Section 479.16(2), which permits signs ....

...The conclusion that appellant’s signs are not entitled to an “on-premises” exemption was expressly predicated upon the location of the signs on non-contiguous property over 1000 feet removed from the place of business. While this circumstance may have been determinative under section 479.16(1), Florida Statutes (1983), which limited the exemption to areas not more than 100 feet from the place of business, the statute was subsequently amended so as to delete this provision. The amended statute, which became effective prior to DOT’s adoption of the recommended orders, now provides an exemption for certain signs “on the premises of an establishment.” See section 479.16(1), Florida Statutes....

...This absurd result is foreclosed by the DOT’s interpretation of § 479.24. The DOT’s interpretation of Chapter 479, which it is charged with administering, is reasonable and should be affirmed. The signs are not “on premises” signs as defined by § 479.16(1), Fla.Stat....

2d 720 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977). Since Harrison, section 479.16(1), Florida Statutes, was amended to eliminate

PER CURIAM. Cafe Erotica/We Dare to Bare/Adult Toys/Great Food/Exit 94, Inc., challenges the Department of Transportation’s Final Order which concluded that, in accord with § 479.16(1), Florida Statutes, appellant’s billboard sign was not an on-premises sign and was therefore subject to permitting requirements pursuant to Chapter 479, Florida Statutes....

Florida Statutes (1975). Petitioner relies upon Section 479.16(1), Florida Statutes (1975) which excepts those

...Section 479.15(2), Florida Statutes, provides: No municipality, county, local zoning authority, or other political subdivision shall remove, or cause to be removed, any advertisement or advertising structure without paying compensation in accordance with s. 479.24(1). However, section 479.16, Florida Statutes, provides that certain advertising signs "are excepted from all the provisions of this chapter" and this includes: (12) Advertisements, advertising signs and advertising structures within the corporate limits of citie...