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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="8-735" title_number="8" title_name="Highways" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Regulation of Outdoor Advertising">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Administration may acquire, by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and remove any outdoor sign:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>That lawfully existed along or near any federal-aid primary highway on July 1, 1975;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>That was lawfully erected and, after July 1, 1975, became nonconforming; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>That lawfully existed along or near any highway that was made a part of the federal-aid primary system on or after October 22, 1965.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Administration may pay compensation under this section only for:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>The taking from the owner of the outdoor sign of all interest in the sign; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>The taking from the owner of the land on which the outdoor sign is located of the right to erect and maintain outdoor signs at that location.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The Administration may not spend funds to control outdoor signs under the federal Highway Beautification Act of 1965 and the Federal-Aid Highway Amendment of 1974, until appropriate matching federal funds are available to this State under these acts.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
