Show to regulate billboard ads along highways The Vernal District of the Bureau of Land Management is launching a program which will regulate and improve billboard and highway advertisements located on public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management along Highway 49 leading east and west Manager A. Frandsen from reported District last Frandsen stated that all persons and firms who have placed display signs on public lands in the past have done so without obtaining permission and are subject to trespass action It is necessary to obtain a permit from the Bureau of Land Management before any advertisement can be The laws regulating this type of use on public lands stipulate that this permit must be obtained from the Bureau of Land which is the agency given the authority to enforce this land-use is not an attempt to forbid highway advertising on the public stated an effort to keep advertisements within good taste and to assure the safety of motorists on the highway Accidents have been caused by the unwise placement of signs along intersections and at other dangerous points which divert the attention of drivers from the job of driving The Bureau has recently published a booklet which spells out the type of signs which may be placed on public lands and the fee required for a The which is has been set at the rate comparable to that received by private land owners from persons and firms using their lands for All those who are presently using public lands for advertising purposes are invited to visit the Vernal District Office at 89 West Main in Ver nal to discuss their sign permits and to obtain information about types of signs which are |