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„niied for in Section 1 of Senate i/i*
caU	senate	143 seeks to have the exception
» thlS law remOTea' and the ri8W Of the municipalities to make local regulations for billboards put upon the same basis as that to make other local ordinances consistent with the general laws, such for example, as building regulations. Houses, stores, and factories are as important in the community as billboards, but local building regulations consistent with the general laws and state regulations do not have to receive the approval of any state commission in order to be eff ective. (See G. L- Chapter 143, Section 3, also Chapter 40, Section 25-) The same is true of every other local ordinance whatever, except this particular case. Why should billboards receive special advantage over houses and everything else that requires regulation?
This bill, after passage by the House last year, was deferred, by the Senate to the present session in order to allow additional time for the Commissioners of Public .,'orks to redraft the «ensral state regulations for restricting billboards that they were Squired to issue under the law of 1980. It was argued that a town
not be sure that its local rules were consistent with the state
I>ecnii a	a	ioq„pd	in	their	amended	form.
Mutations until the latter were issued m
?hpo	.	i	qqued	and in force, there is no
eSe amended regulations being, now issu
Ul?ther reason for postponing this leglisla
. «f further local regulations in That there is need of furan
S,	k8 tvTO examples only, for illustration.
J cases is beyond doubt. iaK	.
ont to restrict the height to which First, towns may -/an bUlK	+VlP	p.round	in	seme	locations.	The
0abds shall be erected above	to	12
' Vp	, ,.Hth 0f the boards to 12 or 14 feet,
^les limit the vertical v1