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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Nguyen</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title>An act to amend Sections 5367, 5441, and 5443 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to outdoor advertising. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>The Outdoor Advertising Act regulates placement of advertising displays adjacent to and within specified distances of highways that are part of the national system of interstate and defense highways and federal-aid highways. The act prohibits a person, as defined, from placing an advertising display within the areas affected by the act without a permit. The act prohibits the Department of Transportation from denying or delaying the acceptance of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or
delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above.</html:p>
<html:p>The act prohibits, except as provided, placing or maintaining an advertising display on property adjacent to a portion of a freeway that has a specified coverage area of landscaping or trees at the same or elevated grade of the main-traveled way, as provided. The act authorizes removal of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would instead authorize the relocation or removal, with payment of compensation, of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>The act does not prohibit a local governmental entity from entering into an agreement to relocate an advertising display for any purpose. The act requires the department to issue a permit without any additional consideration for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would instead not
prohibit any governmental entity from entering into a relocation agreement and would require the department to issue a permit, without any additional consideration and without requiring a local entity or state agency to pay compensation, for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity, as specified.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 5367 of the
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<html:p>The department shall not deny or delay the acceptance, review, processing, or determination of a permit application for a new advertising display along a portion of a new alignment of an interstate or primary highway on the basis that the highway project has not been accepted by the department as complete if the section of highway is open to the use of the public for vehicular travel within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.</html:p>
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Section 5441 of the
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<html:p>An advertising display that is in violation of Section 5440 shall be subject to relocation or removal, with payment of compensation as described in Sections 5412 and 5443, three years from the date the freeway has been declared a landscaped freeway by the director or the director’s designee and the character of the freeway has been changed from a freeway to a landscaped freeway.</html:p>
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Section 5443 of the
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<html:p>Nothing in this article prohibits any of the following:</html:p>
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(a)
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A city, county, or city and county from designating the districts or zones in which advertising displays may be placed or prohibited as part of a city, county, or city and county land use or zoning ordinance.
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(b)
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(1)
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A governmental entity from entering into a relocation agreement for any purpose, including, but not limited to, those purposes provided in Section 5412, or the department from allowing a lawfully erected display to be increased in height at its permitted location or to be relocated provided the height increase or relocation would not cause a reduction in
federal aid highway funds as provided in Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code or an increase in the number of displays within the state that does not conform to this article. An increase in height permitted under this subdivision shall not be more than that necessary to restore the visibility of the display to the main-traveled way. Relocated displays may be placed in the same or a different city, county, or city and county, and relocation agreements shall be entered into between the sign and permit owner and the local governmental entity. An advertising display relocated pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed a placement requiring a new permit and shall comply with all of the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 5350) and Article 7 (commencing with Section 5400). A relocated display shall not result in a net increase of the number of displays adjacent to landscaped
freeway segments statewide.
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(2)
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A relocated advertising display may be converted to or replaced with a message center pursuant to a relocation agreement for any purpose, including, but not limited to, the purposes provided pursuant to Section 5412. The department shall issue a permit, without any additional consideration and without requiring a local entity or state agency to pay compensation pursuant to Section 5412 or 5441, for a display that is being placed pursuant to a relocation agreement with another governmental entity if the relocated display conforms with this section. An advertising display converted or replaced with a message center pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed a placement requiring a new permit and shall comply with all the provisions of Article 6 (commencing with Section 5350) and Article 7
(commencing with Section 5400).
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