BILL NUMBER: AB 2559	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frazier

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section  229.261   101.16 
to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2559, as amended, Frazier.  Tourist-oriented
directional signs: visitor centers.   Visitor centers:
guide signs.  
   Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt
rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on
freeways located in rural areas, of information signs identifying
specific roadside businesses that offer fuel, food, lodging, camping
services, approved 24-hour pharmacy services, or approved
attractions, and that prescribe the standards for those signs.
Existing law also authorizes the department, among other things, to
place and maintain, or cause to be placed and maintained, signs on
state highways directing motorists to communities within the
geographical boundaries of a city, county, or city and county if
specified conditions are satisfied.  
   This bill would require the department to authorize guide signs
for any visitor's center seeking a sign if the visitor center is
located within 2 miles from the highway intersection.  
   Existing law authorizes the Department of Transportation to
administer a program for the placement of tourist-oriented
directional signs for businesses, attractions, or facilities near
state highways in nonurbanized areas. Existing law specifies various
requirements for placement of these signs, including that the maximum
distance from a highway intersection to an attraction or facility
may generally not exceed 10 miles, but may not exceed 3 miles in the
case of food or lodging facilities.  
   This bill would require the department to authorize under these
provisions tourist-oriented directional signs for any visitor's
center seeking a sign if the visitor center is located within 2 miles
from the highway intersection and that authorization otherwise meets
the requirements of these provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION   1   .    Section 101.16
is added to the   Streets and Highways Code   , to
read:  
   101.16.  Notwithstanding Section 21401 of the Vehicle Code, the
department shall authorize guide signs for any visitor's center
seeking a sign if the visitor center is located within two miles from
the highway intersection.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 229.261 is added to the
Streets and Highways Code, to read:
   229.261.  The department shall authorize under this chapter
tourist-oriented directional signs for any visitor's center seeking a
sign if the visitor center is located within two miles from the
highway intersection and that authorization otherwise meets the
requirements of this chapter.