Advertising And Advertisements
Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Advertising; within the limits of the highway, increases civil penalty, localities to share penalty. [HB-616]
Advertising within the limits of the highway; penalties. Increases the civil penalty for advertising within the limits of the highways to $250. The bill also allows localities to remove advertisements and to then share the penalty equally with the Fund.
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Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising, penalty. [HB-471]
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising; penalty. Requires all outdoor advertising of alcoholic beverages to be in compliance with ABC law, ABC Board regulations, and VDOT law and regulations concerning outdoor advertising. The bill also sets the general rule that no outdoor alcoholic beverage advertising shall be placed within 500 linear feet on the same side of the road, and parallel to such road, measured from the nearest edge of the sign face upon which the advertisement is placed to the nearest edge of a building or structure located
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; retail licensee advertising Happy Hour on its website. [HB-470]
Alcoholic beverage control; advertising "Happy Hour." Requires the ABC Board to adopt regulations to allow a retail on-premises licensee to post on a website or social media site maintained or administered by the licensee or his agent information about the time periods during which alcoholic beverages are being sold at reduced prices and to include in connection therewith the terms "Happy Hour" or "Drink Specials," provided (i) such information is not sent or otherwise disseminated electronically by the licensee and (ii) the licensee complies with
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. [HB-466]
Alcoholic beverage control; outdoor advertising. Provides that all lawfully erected outdoor alcoholic beverage signs shall comply with the provisions of outdoor advertising in sight of highways, laws and regulations adopted by the Commonwealth Transportation Board pursuant thereto, and the Integrated Directional Sign Program administered by the Virginia Department of Transportation or its agents.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Signs or advertising, unlawful; Commissioner of Highways agreements with local government. [HB-34]
Advertising within highway limits. Allows the Commissioner of Highways to enter into agreements with any local governing body authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental entities to act as agents of the Commissioner regarding unlawful advertising on highways and collection of penalties and costs. The bill also amends the law regarding such agreements with Fairfax County to provide that signs providing directions to "special events" posted on weekends shall not be subject to such agreements.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Time-share estates; advertisement of foreclosure sales, information to be hard copy and electonic. [HB-234]
Time-Share Act; advertising foreclosed time-share properties. Provides the option of a more streamlined advertisement of the time-shares being foreclosed by requiring publication of the time, place, and date of sale; identification of the time-share being sold; contact information for obtaining further information about the sale; and a website address where more complete information and documentation can be obtained.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
VDOT Integrated Directional Sign Program; maintenance, etc., of signs and impact of changes. [HB-1263]
VDOT Integrated Directional Sign ("Logo Sign") Program. Provides for a broad-based evaluation of the "Logo Sign" Program by the Highway Commissioner.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Dulles Greenway; allowed to lease property for outdoor advertising, SCC to approve toll rates. [HB-1246]
Dulles Greenway; outdoor advertising; tolls. Allows the Dulles Greenway to lease property under its control for purposes of outdoor advertising. The bill also requires that the amount of toll vary according to distance traveled and take into consideration any income generated by the advertising leases.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Advertising; within the limits of a highway, increases civil penalty. [HB-1058]
Advertising within the limits of a highway. Increases the civil penalty for advertising within the limits of a highway from $100 to $250.
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Virginia 2012 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; advertising "Happy Hour." [HB-1026]
Alcoholic beverage control; advertising "Happy Hour." Provides that nothing in ABC law or ABC Board regulations shall be construed to prohibit a retail on-premises licensee from advertising "Happy Hour" or "Drink Specials" and the time period during which alcoholic beverages are being sold at reduced prices using the Internet or similar forms of electronic communications media, provided the licensee complies with all other provisions of ABC law and Board regulations.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Integrated Directional Sign Program; fees charged for participation. [SB-881]
Integrated Directional Sign Program. Provides that fees charged for participation in the Integrated Directional Sign Program (Logo Signs) will be based, in the case of single attractions accessible from more than one access ramp, on the number of access ramps at which the signs are places, and not the number of signs.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Historic Triangle area; additional transient occupancy tax. [SB-1344]
Additional transient occupancy tax; Historic Triangle area. Prohibits more than one person of the same local government, including the governing body of the locality, from serving as a member of the Williamsburg Area Destination Marketing Committee at the same time. This bill also provides that any person who has been selected to the Committee by other than a local governing body who becomes or is a member of the local governing body of the City of Williamsburg, the County of James City, or the County of York shall be ineligible to serve on the
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Newspapers; may petition circuit court for authority to publish legal notices and publications. [HB-282]
Court approval of newspapers used for legal notices and publications. Provides that a newspaper may petition the circuit court for the jurisdiction in which the newspaper is located or circulated for the authority to publish ordinances, resolutions, notices, or advertisements.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Real property tax assessment; notice to be published in newspaper 30 to 45 days prior. [HB-2371]
Real property tax assessment; notice. Requires that notice be published in a newspaper 30 to 45 days prior to the beginning of a reassessment cycle of real property advising taxpayers that they have (i) the right to have the assessor examine their property on site and (ii) the right to be present during such examination.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements. [HB-2288]
Political campaign advertisements; disclosure requirements. Provides that advertisements on the Internet that do not contain sufficient space to display the required disclosure statement may meet disclosure requirements by providing a direct link to another Internet site that displays the required disclosure statement.
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Virginia 2011 Regular Session
Bridge vertical clearance; responsibility of signage. [HB-1726]
Bridge vertical clearance; signage. Clarifies that the Commissioner's responsibility for posting restricted vertical clearances applies only to bridges on roads under the Commissioner's jurisdiction. Localities are responsible for placing signs for restricted vertical clearances on roads maintained by the locality.
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Transient occupancy tax; used for advertising Historic Triangle area. [SB-770]
Transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. Makes changes to the Williamsburg Area Destination Marketing Committee, which is responsible for administering the local transient occupancy tax for the Historic Triangle area. The bill also would provide for the Greater Williamsburg Chamber and Tourism Alliance to serve as the fiscal agent for the Committee.
Sponsored by: Sen. Thomas Norment Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0839) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Changeable electronic variable message signs; imposes a moratorium on erection of advertisements. [SB-763]
Changeable electronic variable message signs. Imposes a moratorium on the erection or conversion of advertisements and advertising structures into changeable electronic variable message signs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mamie Locke Senate: Continued To 2009 In Transportation (14-y 0-n) on 02/07/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax exemption; extends sunset date for exemption of certain printed material. [SB-5]
Sales and use tax exemption; printed materials. Extends the sunset date from July 1, 2008, to July 1, 2012, for the exemption from sales and use tax for the purchase of printing by advertising businesses when the printed material is distributed outside the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Walter Stosch Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0138) on 03/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Advertisement of plans; no person who received written notice may challenge validity of plan, etc. [SB-184]
Advertisement of plans; descriptive summary. Provides that no person who received actual written notice pursuant to certain zoning ordinance amendments may challenge the validity of the plan or ordinance, or amendment thereof, due to the insufficiency of, or an error in, the advertisement.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mark Herring House: Left In Counties, Cities And Towns on 03/03/2008