AB 2559, as amended, Frazier. 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 anybegin delete visitor’send deletebegin insert
visitorend insert center seeking a sign if the visitor center is located within 2 miles from the highway intersection.begin insert The bill would require the department to establish and charge the visitor center a fee to fully offset the department’s cost to place and maintain the sign.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 101.16 is added to the Streets and
2Highways Code, to read:
begin insert(a)end insertbegin insert end insert Notwithstanding Section 21401 of the Vehicle
4Code, the department shall authorizebegin insert aend insert guidebegin delete signsend deletebegin insert signend insert forbegin delete any begin insert a visitorend insert
center seeking a sign if the visitor center is
5visitor’send delete
6located within two miles from the highway intersection.
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(b) The department shall establish and charge a visitor center
8seeking a sign under this section a fee to fully offset the
9department’s cost to place and maintain the sign.
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