BILL NUMBER: SB 31	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Padilla

                        DECEMBER 3, 2012

   An act to amend Section 5213 of the Business and Professions Code,
relating to outdoor advertising.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 31, as introduced, Padilla. Outdoor advertising: definition of
highway.
    Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for
regulation by the Director 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.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the act.
   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 5213 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
   5213.   "Highway"   For purposes of this
chapter, "highway"  includes roads, streets, boulevards, lanes,
courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights-of-way or
easements used for or laid out and intended for the public passage of
vehicles or of vehicles and persons.