Sections
37 entriesSection 5200Establishes the chapter as the Business and Professions Code chapter governing advertisers and allows it to be cited as the Outdoor Advertising…Section 5201Sets the general provisions in this article as the rules governing construction of the chapter unless the context requires a different reading.…Section 5202Defines “advertising display” to include both advertising structures and signs. The term therefore covers either type of display when used in the…Section 5203Defines advertising structure as any kind of structure erected, used, or maintained for outdoor advertising on which an advertisement, including statuary, may…Section 5204Defines “bonus segment” as an interstate-highway segment covered by both the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z’berg Act, specifically…Section 5205Defines business area as an area within 1,000 feet in each direction from the nearest edge of a commercial or industrial building…Section 5206Defines “centerline of the highway” as the line equally distant from the median edges separating the main-traveled ways of a divided highway,…Section 5208Defines “Collier-Z’berg Act” as Chapter 128 of the Statutes of 1964, First Extraordinary Session. The provision supplies only that cross-reference for use…Section 5208.6Defines “department” to mean the Department of Transportation for purposes of the statutory provisions using that term. References to the department within…Section 5209Defines “Director” as the Director of Transportation of the State of California. The definition establishes which state official is referenced by that…Section 5210Defines Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 to mean Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code as that federal…Section 5211Defines “flashing” as a light or message that changes more than once during every four-second period. A display therefore falls within the…Section 5212Defines “freeway,” solely for purposes of the chapter, as a divided arterial highway for through traffic that has full control of access…Section 5213Defines highway to include roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways, and other rights-of-way or easements that are used for,…Section 5214Defines “Highway Beautification Act of 1965” to mean the specified federal law as it existed on October 22, 1965. The definition fixes…Section 5215Defines interstate highway as a highway officially designated at any time by the director as part of the national system of interstate…Section 5216Defines landscaped freeway as a freeway section improved with ornamental vegetation on one side or median. Plantings for erosion control, traffic safety,…Section 5216.1Defines lawfully erected advertising displays as displays compliant with state and local law when erected or later brought into full compliance, excluding…Section 5216.3Defines “main-traveled way” as the part of a highway carrying through traffic and, on divided highways, each separate roadway carrying traffic in…Section 5216.4Defines message center as an advertising display whose message changes more than once every two minutes but no more frequently than once…Section 5216.5Defines nonconforming advertising display as a display that was lawfully placed but does not conform to provisions of the chapter or administrative…Section 5216.6Defines officially designated scenic highway or scenic byway as a state highway formally designated and maintained as a state scenic highway under…Section 5218Defines “penalty segment” as a California highway segment covered by the Highway Beautification Act of 1965 but not by both earlier named…Section 5219Defines “person” to include a natural person, firm, cooperative, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation. The term therefore covers individuals and…Section 5220Defines “primary highway” as a highway other than an interstate highway that was part of the federal-aid primary system existing on June…Section 5221Defines sign as outdoor-advertising material of any character placed on or to land or any natural or built object, other than an…Section 5222Defines 660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way as a horizontal measurement starting at that edge and running along a line…Section 5222.1Defines “state highway system” by incorporating the state highway system described in the specified Streets and Highways Code provision. References to that…Section 5223Defines unzoned commercial or industrial area as unzoned land whose use resembles land normally zoned commercial or industrial, including the land where…Section 5224Defines visible as capable of being seen by a person with normal visual acuity without visual aid, whether or not the matter…Section 5225Defines place, and its variants, for advertising displays to include maintaining, erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking, nailing, gluing, sticking, carving, fastening,…Section 5226Establishes only legislative findings and declarations supporting regulation of advertising displays near interstate and primary highways, citing public safety, welfare, travel, highway…Section 5227Establishes legislative intent to occupy the field of advertising-display regulation under the chapter, while preserving county enforcement by duly designated persons. Allows…Section 5228Establishes legislative intent, rather than an independent operative rule, to create minimum standards for advertising displays adjacent to highways in the national…Section 5229Prohibits construing the chapter as permission to place or maintain outdoor advertising on or adjacent to any street, road, or highway when…Section 5230Allows a city, county, or city and county to enact advertising-display restrictions adjacent to streets, roads, or highways that are equal to…Section 5231Allows the governing body of a city or city and county to require additional local licenses, permits, or both for placing advertising…