Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not specify exact compensation amounts for relocation or removal of advertisements.

Regulations for Outdoor Advertising Near Landscaped Freeways

This legislation updates rules about placing advertising displays near state highways and freeways that have landscaped areas, allowing relocation agreements between government entities without additional costs.

What This Bill Does

• Updates the rules on where outdoor advertisements can be placed next to state highways with landscaped areas.
• Requires the Department of Transportation to issue permits for new advertising displays along sections of highway open to traffic within 1,000 feet of the location specified in the permit application.
• Prohibits placing or maintaining an advertising display on property adjacent to a portion of a freeway that has a coverage area of landscaped vegetation at the same or elevated grade of the main-traveled way.
• Authorizes relocation or removal of advertisements that violate these rules, with compensation paid when necessary.
• Permits government entities to enter into agreements for relocating advertisements and requires the Department of Transportation to issue permits accordingly without additional costs.

Who It Names or Affects

• Advertising companies placing displays near highways
• The Department of Transportation
• Local governmental entities

Terms To Know

Freeway

A major road designed for high-speed traffic, often part of a national highway system.

Relocation agreement

An arrangement between government entities to move an advertising display from one location to another.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify the exact compensation amounts for relocation or removal of advertisements.
• It is unclear how often classification reviews will be requested and processed by the Department of Transportation.
• The effectiveness date of this legislation has not been set yet.

Official Summary Text

AB 2024, as amended, Nguyen.
Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements.
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.
This bill would also prohibit the department from denying or
delaying the review, processing, or determination of a permit application described above.
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.
When a freeway has been classified as meeting these requirements, the act requires that classification to remain in effect until the department receives a request for a new classification review in accordance with applicable regulations.
The act authorizes removal of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as provided.
This bill would instead
prohibit, except as provided, placing or maintaining an advertising display on property adjacent to a portion of a state
highway that has a specified coverage area of landscaped vegetation, including, but not limited to, trees, with the landscaped vegetation planted at the same or elevated grade of the main-traveled way, as specified. This bill would require a request for a new classification review to identify the postmiles of a section of a freeway that does not meet the criteria for landscaped vegetation. The bill would instead
authorize the relocation or removal, with payment of compensation, of an advertising display that violates that prohibition, as specified.
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.
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.

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