54-17-108 - Advertising or junkyards prohibited on scenic highways Authority of commissioner to acquire. - Tennessee Statutes

54-17-108. Advertising or junkyards prohibited on scenic highways Authority of commissioner to acquire.

(a)  Whenever a road or highway has been designated part of the system, it is unlawful for any person to construct, use, operate or maintain any advertising structure or junkyard within two thousand feet (2,000¢) of any road or highway that is a designated part of the system and that is located either outside the corporate limits of any city or town or at any place within a tourist resort county, as defined in § 42-1-301.

(b)  The commissioner is authorized to acquire the advertising structure or junkyard by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and to pay just compensation for the removal of these structures and junkyards.

[Acts 1971, ch. 431, § 8; 1976, ch. 819, § 6; T.C.A., § 54-2508; Acts 1981, ch. 166, § 1; 1991, ch. 301, §§ 1, 4.]