Advertising displays: City of Los Angeles: exemption: ordinance.

Crime

Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor: Mark González
Last action: 2025-10-13
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 707, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify exact limits or ranges for signage capacity, leaving this detail to local ordinances.

Advertising Displays in Los Angeles

This law allows the City of Los Angeles to create rules for advertising signs with more flexibility regarding placement, size, and number of signs.

What This Bill Does

Allows the city to make rules about advertising displays that are flexible in terms of placement, size, and number of signs.
Defines a range or maximum signage capacity.
Permits the city to create new rules over time that control when and how many signs can be put up.

Who It Names or Affects

The City of Los Angeles
Businesses and companies putting up advertising displays in Los Angeles

Terms To Know

Outdoor Advertising Act: A law that regulates where and how businesses can put up signs for advertisements.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify the exact limits or ranges for signage capacity.
Does not provide details on how new rules will be phased in over time.

Bill History

2025-10-13 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 707, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-13 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-24 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-12 California Legislative Information
Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 3365.).
2025-09-11 California Legislative Information
From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (September 11).
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3164.)
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 4. Page 2666.).
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).
2025-08-18 California Legislative Information
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-07-09 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-07-02 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
2025-06-25 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-06-13 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on TRANS.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1851.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-04-03 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-03 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2025-03-04 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on G.O.
2025-03-03 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-03 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on G.O.
2025-02-19 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-02-18 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 770, Mark González.
Advertising displays: City of Los Angeles: exemption: ordinance.
(1) The Outdoor Advertising Act, a violation of which is a crime, provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. Existing law exempts from certain provisions of the act advertising displays located in
specific geographic areas in the City of Los Angeles if those displays meet prescribed conditions and requirements, including the condition that the advertising display is authorized by, or in accordance with, an ordinance adopted by the City of Los Angeles that regulates advertising displays by identifying the specific displays or establishing regulations that include, at a minimum, specified restrictions, as provided.
This bill would authorize the ordinance adopted by the City of Los Angeles to authorize a framework of allowable signage that preserves flexibility in the ultimate placement, sizing, and scope of advertising displays, and define a range or maximum signage capacity, as specified. The bill would also authorize the City of Los Angeles to adopt implementing ordinances that sequence or phase the authorization of
advertising displays over time.
(2) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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