ARTICLE 1. General Provisions [5200. - 5231.]

Article 1 added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.

§§ 5200–5231 · 37 sections

• § 5200 This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on advertisers. It may be cited as the Outdoor Advertising Act.
• § 5201 Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 5202 “Advertising display” refers to advertising structures and to signs.
• § 5203 “Advertising structure” means a structure of any kind or character erected, used, or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any poster, bill,…
• § 5204 “Bonus segment” means any segment of an interstate highway which was covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act, namely, any…
• § 5205 “Business area” means an area within 1,000 feet, measured in each direction, from the nearest edge of a commercial or industrial building or activity and which…
• § 5206 “Centerline of the highway” means a line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main traveled way of a divided highway, or the centerline of…
• § 5208 “Collier-Z'berg Act” refers to Chapter 128, Statutes of 1964 (First Extraordinary Session).
• § 5208.6 “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
• § 5209 “Director” refers to the Director of Transportation of the State of California.
• § 5210 “Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect before October 22, 1965.
• § 5211 “Flashing” is a light or message that changes more than once every four seconds.
• § 5212 “Freeway,” for the purposes of this chapter only, means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full control of access and with grade separations…
• § 5213 “Highway” includes roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights-of-way or easements used for or laid out and…
• § 5214 “Highway Beautification Act of 1965” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect October 22, 1965.
• § 5215 “Interstate highway” means any highway at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the director…
• § 5216 (a) “Landscaped freeway” means a section or sections of a freeway that is now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting at least on one side or on the…
• § 5216.1 “Lawfully erected” means, in reference to advertising displays, advertising displays which were erected in compliance with state laws and local ordinances in…
• § 5216.3 “Main-traveled way” is the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled way of each of the…
• § 5216.4 “Message center” is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no more than once every four seconds.
• § 5216.5 “Nonconforming advertising display” is an advertising display that was lawfully placed, but that does not conform to the provisions of this chapter, or the…
• § 5216.6 (a) “Officially designated scenic highway or scenic byway” is any state highway that has been officially designated and maintained as a state scenic highway…
• § 5218 “Penalty segment” means any segment of a highway located in this state which was not covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act…
• § 5219 “Person” includes natural person, firm, cooperative, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation.
• § 5220 “Primary highway” means any highway, other than an interstate highway, designated as a part of the federal-aid primary system in existence on June 1, 1991, and…
• § 5221 “Sign” refers to any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on or to the ground or any…
• § 5222 “660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way” means 660 feet measured from the edge of the right-of-way horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular to the…
• § 5222.1 “State highway system” means the state highway system as described in Section 300 of the Streets and Highways Code.
• § 5223 “Unzoned commercial or industrial area” means an area not zoned under authority of state law in which the land use is characteristic of that generally…
• § 5224 “Visible” means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity.
• § 5225 The verb, “to place” and any of its variants, as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting,…
• § 5226 The regulation of advertising displays adjacent to any interstate highway or primary highway as provided in Section 5405 is hereby declared to be necessary to…
• § 5227 It is the intention of the Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation by the provisions of this chapter except that nothing in this chapter prohibits…
• § 5228 It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting the provisions of this chapter regulating advertising displays adjacent to highways included in…
• § 5229 The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to permit a person to place or maintain in existence on or adjacent to any street, road or highway,…
• § 5230 The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact ordinances, including, but not limited to, land use or zoning ordinances, imposing…
• § 5231 The governing body of any city or city and county may enact ordinances requiring licenses or permits, or both, in addition to those imposed by this chapter,…