{"id":882,"date":"2017-09-05T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/2017\/09\/05\/private-property-rights-3-points-informedintel-billboard-fees\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:00:00","slug":"private-property-rights-3-points-informedintel-billboard-fees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/private-property-rights-3-points-informedintel-billboard-fees\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Property Rights. 3 Points informed:intel Billboard Fees."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court this week refused to take an appeal on the City of Austin billboard fee.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, courts- their words are like teachers in a Peanuts cartoon.\u00a0What does this mean?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court of Appeals opinion declaring Austin&#8217;s billboard fees unconstitutional stands.<\/li>\n<li>Why is the fee unconstitutional?\n<ul>\n<li>The city can charge taxes up to 50% of what the state imposes.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of billboard fee does the state have? None.<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 x\u00a00 =\u00a00. Austin can impose a total fee of 0 under this rational.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Is the billboard fee actually a fee or is it a tax? An earlier court decided that the fee was indeed a local tax, and here we are.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/local\/texas-supreme-court-declines-revive-austin-billboard-fee\/UKvF79aOC5emns5DanJb7N\/\">Statesman |\u00a0Texas Supreme Court declines to revive Austin\u2019s billboard fee<\/a><\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 1\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=3bc09785-b8d1-4f30-8f5d-7bff6404294d&amp;MediaID=b950ece5-80eb-419e-995b-0d5e267dba5b&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">Reagan National Advertising of Austin, Inc. d\/b\/a Reagan National Advertising, Appellant v.<br \/>\nCity of Austin, Texas; and Marc A. Ott, being sued in his Official Capacity, Appellees\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Supreme Court this week refused to take an appeal on the City of Austin billboard fee.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers, courts- their words are like teachers in a Peanuts cartoon.\u00a0What does this mean?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Court of Appeals opinion declaring Austin&#8217;s billboard fees unconstitutional stands.<\/li>\n<li>Why is the fee unconstitutional?\n<ul>\n<li>The city can charge taxes up to 50% of what the state imposes.<\/li>\n<li>What kind of billboard fee does the state have? None.<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 x\u00a00 =\u00a00. Austin can impose a total fee of 0 under this\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,4,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-billboard","category-legal-trend","category-local-government-trend","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/eminentdomain\/wp-eminentdomain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}