Transportation
Outdoor advertising displays: permits: landscaped freeways: relocation agreements
AB 2024 streamlines billboard permits and allows relocation of signs affected by landscaped-freeway rules.
The law lets outdoor advertising displays be relocated rather than removed in certain cases, while preserving limits on the statewide number of nonconforming signs.
What the law does
- Bars the Department of Transportation from delaying any stage of a new-display permit application because a new interstate or primary highway project is not formally complete, if the highway is open to traffic within 1,000 feet of the proposed site.
- Allows a display that violates landscaped-freeway restrictions to be removed with compensation or relocated without compensation three years after the freeway is designated and becomes a landscaped freeway.
- Allows any governmental entity to make billboard relocation agreements, including agreements allowing a relocated sign to become a message center.
- Requires the Department of Transportation to issue a permit without additional consideration or compensation from a local entity or state agency when a qualifying relocation agreement is in place.
- Requires relocated or converted displays to obtain a new permit, meet applicable outdoor-advertising rules, avoid reducing federal highway funds, and avoid a statewide net increase in displays along landscaped freeway segments.
Who it affects
- Outdoor advertising sign and permit owners.
- Cities, counties, city and counties, and other governmental entities negotiating sign relocations.
- The Department of Transportation.