City of Phoenix Transit Advertising Standards

Public Transit Department 
 
TRANSIT ADVERTISING STANDARDS 
 
 October 2, 2014 
 
 
A. 
It is the intent of the City that all transit advertising panels on city 
buses and on transit furniture are non-public forums and are to be set aside only for 
commercial advertisements or for City-specific services.  The City’s primary 
purpose for the transit advertising panel, outside of informing the public about City 
services, is generating revenue. 
 
 
B. 
Other than for City-specific services, no advertising will be accepted 
for use on any city bus or transit furniture that fails to comply with the following 
standards: 
 
 
 
1. 
The subject matter of and the speech in the advertisement 
must be limited to a proposed commercial transaction.   
 
 
 
2. 
The advertising may not: 
 
 
 
 
a. 
Be false, misleading, or deceptive. 
 
 
 
 
b. 
Relate to an illegal activity. 
 
c. 
Contain non-commercial speech.  
 
 
 
 
d. 
Advertise or depict, by language or graphics, violence  
 
 
 
 
or anti-social behavior.  
 
 
e. 
Advertise or depict language, gestures, conduct, or 
graphical representations that are obscene, 
pornographic, vulgar, profane, or scatological. 
 
 
f. 
Depict a nude or seminude person, as those terms are 
defined in Section 11-811, Arizona Revised Statutes, or 
the exposed buttocks of any person. 
 
 
g. 
Depict, relate to, or reference a website or other 
medium that relates to specified sexual activities or 
specified anatomical areas as those terms are defined in 
Section 11-811, Arizona Revised Statutes. 
 
h.  
Advertise or depict the use of tobacco or smoking 
 
products, including if the product is advertised or 
 
depicted in a non-smoking form.

i. 
Advertise or depict the use of spirituous liquor as that 
term is defined in Section 4-101, Arizona Revised 
Statutes:  
 
i. 
On the exterior or interior of Phoenix 
Neighborhood Circulator and Reserve-a-Ride vehicles. 
 
ii. 
On the interior of any transit vehicle. 
 
iii. 
On transit furniture that is located less than 600 
feet from a church or similar structure of worship, or 
school building.   
 
 
 
 
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