BILL NUMBER: AB 2002 CHAPTERED 09/06/06 CHAPTER 204 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR SEPTEMBER 6, 2006 PASSED THE SENATE AUGUST 16, 2006 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY MAY 4, 2006 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 1, 2006 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 6, 2006 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 27, 2006 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member La Malfa FEBRUARY 9, 2006 An act to add Section 1978 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highway signs. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2002, La Malfa Highway signs: veterans. Existing law authorizes local authorities, with respect to highways under their respective jurisdictions, to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, signs to recognize the sponsors of the Adopt-A-Riverway Program. This bill would authorize county officials, with respect to any state or county highway within their respective jurisdictions and upon a resolution adopted by the respective county board of supervisors, to place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, at or near the county line and at county expense, signs stating, or to add to their existing signs, the statement "Where We Honor Veterans." The bill would require the approval of the Department of Transportation if those signs are on a state highway. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 1978 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read: 1978. (a) County officials, with respect to any state or county highway within their respective jurisdictions and upon a resolution adopted by the respective county board of supervisors, may place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, at or near the county line and at county expense, signs stating or adding to their existing signs the following statement: "Where We Honor Veterans." (b) Signs or additions to signs described in subdivision (a) that are on a state highway shall only be placed or added to upon the approval of the Department of Transportation.