Advertising And Advertisements
Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Highway welcome and exit signs; localities may put up within highway rights-of-way. [HB-692]
Highway "welcome" signs and exit signs. Allows local governing bodies to put up "welcome" signs within highway rights-of-way or within sight of highway rights-of-way to welcome travelers. These signs may include statements or phrases such as "birthplace of __________," "site of the __________," or "home of the __________." Such signs may also display the Internet web address of the locality's official website. The bill also provides for display of the Internet address of a locality's official website on exit signs on controlled access highways.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ward Armstrong House: Left In Transportation on 02/12/2008
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Print media advertisements; requirement for those sponsored by political party committee. [HB-69]
Requirements for print media advertisements sponsored by a political party committee. Requires a political party committee to obtain the permission of its candidate before sponsoring a print media advertisement that clearly identifies the candidate that the party committee is opposing.
Sponsored by: No sponsors House: Left In Privileges And Elections on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Polls; prohibiting campaign advertisements. [HB-619]
Elections; prohibited activities at the polls. Adds campaign advertisements as defined in the "stand by your ad" law to the list of campaign materials that cannot be exhibited within the polling place or prohibited area around the polling place. The bill also creates an exception to the prohibition for a voter's wearing apparel and buttons or stickers on a voter's apparel that contain a candidate's name or a political slogan.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Brink House: Continued To 2009 In Privileges And Elections By Voice Vote on 02/01/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Loitering; prohibited in right-of-way of certain highways with posted signs. [HB-470]
Loitering in the rights-of-way of certain highways. Prohibits loitering in the right-of-way of any highway where it has been determined that loitering presents a public safety hazard and the VDOT Commissioner or the local governing body has posted signs prohibiting such activity.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Watts Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0503) on 03/17/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Highway welcome and exit signs; localities may put up within highway rights-of-way. [HB-373]
Highway "welcome" signs and exit signs. Allows local governing bodies to put up "welcome" signs within highway rights-of-way or within sight of highway rights-of-way to welcome travelers. These signs may include statements or phrases such as "birthplace of __________," "site of the __________," or "home of the __________." Such signs may also display the Internet web address of the locality's official website. The bill also provides for display of the Internet address of a locality's official website on exit signs on controlled access highways.
Sponsored by: Sen. Charles Carrico House: Left In Transportation on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Consumer Protection Act; advertising at price after rebate. [HB-1545]
Consumer Protection Act; advertising at price after rebate. Makes it a prohibited practice under the Virginia Consumer Protection Act to advertise goods for sale in manner that would lead a reasonable person to conclude that the price of the goods is the ultimate price paid by the purchaser after the purchaser redeems the manufacturer's rebate offered for the advertised goods. The practice would not be prohibited if the supplier provides the amount of the manufacturer's rebate to the purchaser at the time of purchase.
Sponsored by: Sen. Kenneth Alexander House: Left In Commerce And Labor on 02/12/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Changeable electronic variable message signs; imposes a moratorium on erection of advertisements. [HB-1511]
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: Rep. Joe May House: Continued To 2009 In Transportation By Voice Vote on 02/05/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Campaign finance disclosure; political campaign advertisement requirements. [HB-1410]
Campaign finance disclosure; campaign advertisement disclosure requirements; publication of paid political advertisements. Reduces from $500 to $200 or more the amount of independent expenditures that a person may make with respect to an election for any office, other than a statewide office, that will require him to comply with the reporting requirements for independent expenditures under the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act and with the disclosure requirements of the "stand-by-your-ad" law. The bill also provides that a candidate who is clearly
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Sponsored by: Rep. Riley Ingram Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0825) on 04/14/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
VDOT logo signs; businesses that cater to recreational vehicle users. [HB-1130]
VDOT logo signs. Requires the Commonwealth Transportation Board to allow businesses that cater to recreational vehicle users and participate in the Integrated Directional Sign Program to identify themselves through use of distinctive symbols or images.
Sponsored by: Rep. S. Chris Jones House: Tabled In Transportation By Voice Vote on 01/29/2008
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Virginia 2008 Regular Session
Outdoor advertising; local governments ability to limit or remove signs.. [HB-1105]
Outdoor advertising. Gives local governments increased ability to limit or remove nonconforming billboard signs.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Bouchard House: Continued To 2009 In Transportation By Voice Vote on 02/05/2008
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Singular church locational sign; permissible in state-maintained right-of-way. [HB-2388]
Singular church locational sign permissible in state-maintained right-of-way. Adds to the list of acceptable outdoor advertising in sight of public highways a single sign of 20 square feet or less marking the location of a church at its permitted entrance, provided such sign is located outside the clear zone, does not constitute a safety hazard, and is duly permitted by the Commissioner of the Highways.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Alcoholic beverage control; point of sale advertising materials. [SB-1358]
Alcoholic beverage control; point of sale advertising materials. Provides that point of sale advertising materials provided by a manufacturer or its authorized vendor or a wholesale wine and beer licensee to a retail licensee may be made of wood or metal and increases from $40 per item to $100 per item the maximum wholesale value of such materials. The bill also provides that no wholesaler or retail licensee shall be required by agreement or otherwise to pay for such advertising materials.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Foreclosure advertisements; posted at courthouse and on local government or circuit court website. [SB-1368]
Foreclosure advertisements; posted at courthouse and on local government or circuit court website. Provides that, in lieu of newspaper advertisements, foreclosure sales shall be advertised at the courthouse and on the website of the public government of the locality served by the court or of the circuit court for the county or city in which the property to be sold is located, and that the clerk shall place a small notice in a newspaper having a general circulation in the city or county in which the property to be sold is located informing the public
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Business advertising material; expands definition. [HB-1629]
Business advertising material; private security services businesses. Expands the definition of business advertising material as it relates to private security services businesses to include any electronic medium, including the Internet, social media, and digital advertising.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Retail Sales and Use Tax; media-related exemptions. [SB-804]
Retail sales and use tax; media-related exemptions. Extends from July 1, 2017, to July 1, 2022, the expiration of the retail sales and use tax exemption for printing purchased by an advertising business from a printer in the Commonwealth, so long as such material is distributed outside of the Commonwealth.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Legal notices; advertisement by locality. [HB-286]
Legal notices; advertisement by locality. Allows localities with a population of 50,000 or greater to meet certain legal notice requirements by advertising on local radio or television stations or publishing on the locality's website instead of publishing in a newspaper of general circulation.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Legal notices; advertisement by certain towns. [HB-956]
Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William, legal notices may be published on the locality's website instead of in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.
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Virginia 2017 Regular Session
Legal notices; advertisement of by certain towns. [HB-1078]
Advertisement of legal notices by certain towns. Provides that in any town within the Counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William that does not have a newspaper of general circulation located within its boundary, legal notices may be published on the locality's website instead of in a newspaper having general circulation in the locality.