Pittsburgh Poster Advertising Co. v. Swissvale Borough

Citations

• 70 Pa. Super. 224
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 216

Syllabus

<p>Municipalities — Billboards—License—Police power — Invalid ordinance.</p> <p>While a municipality has under its police power, the right to enact an ordinance for the licensing and regulation of billboards, it cannot, in such an ordinance, compel an applicant for a license to sign an agreement that he will keep the property in a clean condition, clear of all rubbish, garbage, waste, paper and similar things; nor can it provide that the board must be three feet above the street curb, inasmuch as that would prevent the use of lots lying lower than the street from being employed as sites for billboards; nor can it provide that the billboard must be painted; nor can it enact the payment of fifty cents per lineal foot as a license fee without any provision specifying the term during which such fee is available.</p>