SD lawmakers uphold veto of digital billboards

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PIERRE (AP) — The South Dakota Legislature has upheld Gov. Dennis Daugaard's veto of a bill that would have prohibited cities from banning digital billboards.

The Senate voted to pass the law over the governor's objections, but the House fell four votes short of the two-thirds majority needed to override Daugaard's veto.

That means Daugaard has successfully blocked the law from taking effect.

Rapid City voters last year passed an initiated ordinance that banned new digital billboards. In his veto message, the governor said the Legislature should not pass a new law while a lawsuit is pending over the Rapid City ordinance.

Opponents of the legislative proposal urged that lawmakers uphold the governor's veto because the measure would have interfered with local control of billboards.

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