(a) The department may consider a sign abandoned and cancel the sign's permit if:
  (1) all sign faces are blank or without legible content;
  (2) the sign structure needs more than customary maintenance to be repaired; or
  (3) the sign structure is overgrown by trees or other vegetation.
(b) The department will not consider the payment of property taxes or the retention of a sign as a balance sheet asset in determining whether the sign permit should be canceled under this section.

Source Note: The provisions of this §21.181 adopted to be effective July 1, 2011, 36 TexReg 2418; amended to be effective March 14, 2018, 43 TexReg 1446