Opinion ID: 1974568
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Substantive Issues of the Appeal.

Text: Defendant National Advertising Company raises the following four foundational issues on appeal: (1) that the commission's failure to meet and adopt formally a policy for the removal of nonconforming signs renders invalid the implementation program undertaken; (2) that the commission's failure to make formal findings concerning the availability of federal funds violated an essential precondition of the exercise of the police power to amortize nonconforming signs pursuant to § 2719(7); (3) that the Maine statute's provisions for the elimination of signs by amortization or eminent domain constitutes a denial of substantive due process, and the amortization provisions alone amount to an unconstitutional taking; (4) that the amortization provisions of §§ 2719(6) and (7) are an unconstitutional delegation of legislative power to the commission.