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HB3164 • 2025

Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.

Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Representative Cate, Representative Reschke,
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
In House Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.

Digest: The Act says that a sign that is not up very long on private land may be up to 32 square feet instead of 12 square feet.

What This Bill Does

  • Digest: The Act says that a sign that is not up very long on private land may be up to 32 square feet instead of 12 square feet.
  • (Flesch Readability Score: 79.1).
  • Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
  • Relating to: Relating to temporary signs on private property.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 House

    In committee upon adjournment.

  2. 2025-01-17 House

    Referred to Rules.

  3. 2025-01-13 House

    First reading. Referred to Speaker's desk.

Official Summary Text

Digest: The Act says that a sign that is not up very long on private land may be up to 32 square feet instead of 12 square feet. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.1).
Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
Relating to: Relating to temporary signs on private property.
Current location: In House Committee

Current Bill Text

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83rd OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2025 Regular Session
House Bill 3164
Sponsored by Representative CATE (Presession filed.)
SUMMARY
The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject
to consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor’s brief statement of the essential features of the
measure as introduced. The statement includes a measure digest written in compliance with applicable readability
standards.
Digest: The Act says that a sign that is not up very long on private land may be up to 32 square
feet instead of 12 square feet. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.1).
Increases the allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to temporary signs on private property; amending ORS 377.735.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
SECTION 1.
ORS 377.735 is amended to read:
377.735. (1) The permit requirements of ORS 377.700 to 377.844 do not apply to:
(a) Signs of a governmental unit, including but not limited to traffic control signs or devices,
legal notices or warnings.
(b) A temporary sign on private property if:
(A) The sign does not exceed [12] 32 square feet;
(B) The sign is not on a permanent base;
(C) The sign does not remain in place for a period of more than 60 days in a calendar year,
except that a sign erected by a resident on the resident’s residential property may remain in place
for longer than 60 days in a calendar year;
(D) No person receives compensation or anything of value as defined by the Department of
Transportation by rule for displaying the sign; and
(E) The sign complies with ORS 377.720.
(2) The Department of Transportation may adopt rules that, for good cause shown, allow a per-
son displaying a temporary sign to obtain a variance from the restrictions in subsection (1)(b) of this
section. The department shall not consider the content of the sign in deciding whether to allow a
variance.
(3) The department shall adopt rules for the approval and preservation of historic signs. Rules
adopted under this subsection may not be based on or allow consideration of the content of the
signs.
(4) The department shall adopt rules for the erection and maintenance of permanent signs that
do not exceed six square feet and that provide messages for the safety or convenience of the public.
(5) ORS 377.700 to 377.844 do not apply to a sign erected or maintained within a city more than
660 feet from the nearest edge of the right of way of a state highway, unless the sign is designed
to be viewed primarily from the state highway.
NOTE: Matter in boldfaced type in an amended section is new; matter [ italic and bracketed] is existing law to be omitted.
New sections are in boldfaced type.
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