MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. MANO SWARTZ

[No. 145, September Term, 1972.]

268 Md. 79 (1973)

299 A.2d 828

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE ET AL. v. MANO SWARTZ, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 8, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph S. Matricciani, Assistant City Solicitor, and Richard M. Hartman, Special Assistant City Solicitor, with whom were George L. Russell, Jr., City Solicitor, and Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Solicitor, on the brief, for appellants.

George A. Nilson, with whom was John Martin Jones, Jr., on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES and LEVINE, JJ.


SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

For the second time we have before us an attack on the validity of Ordinance No. 663 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the City), approved 1 November 1965, now Baltimore City Code Art. 1, § 39 (1966) (the Ordinance), which was designed to regulate signs in the central business district of Baltimore.

There was testimony that the City had been so successful in limiting the size and design of signs...

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