(a) The Chief Administrative Officer must issue a request for proposals for a contractor to sell, affix, maintain, and replace exterior and interior advertisements on and in public transit buses owned or operated by the Department of Transportation.
(b) The contract must allow advertisements to be placed on all public transit buses owned or operated by the Department. A contract must be executed and advertising must begin within 6 months after a request is issued.
(c) Only commercial advertisements, or County government notices that inform the public of a County program or service, may be placed on or in public transit buses owned or operated by the Department. County notices must comprise at least 10% of all exterior advertising space and 20% of all interior advertising space.
(d) An advertisement or notice must not:
(1) exceed 50 square feet; or
(2) cover a window of any bus.
(e) All revenue derived from bus advertising must be deposited in the Mass Transit Facilities Fund. (2004 L.M.C., ch. 4, § 1; 2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 1.)
Editor’s note—2008 L.M.C., ch. 5, § 3, states: Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.