BILL NUMBER: AB 994	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cedillo

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 5273 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to outdoor advertising.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 994, as introduced, Cedillo. Outdoor advertising.
   Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for the
regulation by the Department of Transportation of advertising
displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act
regulates the placement of off-premise advertising displays along
highways, which displays generally advertise business conducted or
services rendered or goods produced or sold at a location other than
the property upon which the display is located. Under the act,
advertising displays advertising businesses and activities within the
boundary limits of, and as a part of, an individual redevelopment
agency project may, with the consent of the redevelopment agency
governing the project, be considered to be on premises, as specified.

   This bill would authorize those advertising displays to continue
to be considered as on premises advertising displays after a
redevelopment agency is dissolved if the agency consented to the
advertising display before January 1, 2011.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 5273 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   5273.   (a)    For the purpose of this chapter,
advertising displays advertising those businesses and activities
developed within the boundary limits of, and as a part of, an
individual redevelopment agency project may, with the consent of the
redevelopment agency governing the project, be considered to be on
the premises anywhere within the limits of that project when all of
the land is contiguous or is separated only by a public highway or
public facilities developed or relocated for inclusion within the
project as a part of the original redevelopment plan for a period not
to exceed 10 years or the completion of the project, whichever first
occurs, after which Sections 5272 and 5405 apply, unless an
arrangement has been made for extension of the period between the
redevelopment agency and the department for good cause. The 10-year
period for existing displays shall commence on January 1, 1986. 
   (b) If a redevelopment agency that consented, prior to January 1,
2011, to an advertising display under subdivision (a) is dissolved,
the advertising display may be maintained in the same manner as if
the redevelopment agency had not been dissolved.