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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, at the moment, county governments are licensing various persons to advertise in various outdoor places in the county, but a dispute has arisen between the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) as to who should pay for the billboards and how much should be paid. KeNHA is on record as having stated that the advertising fee should be paid to them while county governments think otherwise. Therefore, this Bill attempts to regulate this unregulated area so that we can have a process under which a person can apply. We can have a process as to where a billboard or any other form of advertisement can be erected. In Clause 2, the Committee has come up with various definitions of what constitutes advertising, amenities, area, committee, county executive, hoarding, sponsorship, marketing plan and so on. Clause 3 deals with how the application will be made, what will be displayed, what should not be displayed and where the billboards or any other form of advertisement should be. This is outlined in this clause in great detail. Yesterday, I stated that there have been proposals and we will bring them during the Third Reading by various stakeholders on what should be excluded. That is something for the Senators to consider. Clause 4 addresses the issue of advertisement licence which is the bone of contention among stakeholders; the framework and the committee is set out in Clause 4(2) and (3) and the details as to who would sit in the committee. We have received proposals to increase the representation in this committee, including the people who do outdoor advertising and members of the private sector and the KeNHA. It is in the spirit of having coordination and co-operation between the national government and the county government entities as envisaged in Article 189 of the Constitution. Clause 5 address the issue of who should apply, when to apply and what to give. You notice that in Clause 5(2c), an exception was given. You recall that when His Excellency the President gave out title deeds in Mombasa, there was an issue as to whether a certificate of lease is a title deed or not. Therefore, under the (c), it has been proposed that we expand the definition to include any other form or recognized ownership documents which include certificates of lease, title deeds, allotment letters and others not included here. It would then appear that Clause 5(c) excludes people who have The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes"
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