BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2756
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Date of Hearing: April 19, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION
Bonnie Lowenthal, Chair
AB 2756 (Blumenfield) - As Amended: March 18, 2010
SUBJECT : Mobile billboard advertising displays: parking
SUMMARY : Imposes a statewide ban on parked mobile billboard
advertising displays within a city or county, other than a
parking lot or parking garage. Specifically, this bill :
1)Prohibits a person from parking a mobile billboard advertising
display in a public place within a city or county, other than
in a parking lot or parking garage.
2)Defines "mobile billboard advertising display" as any
advertising display that is attached to a wheeled conveyance,
or is otherwise mobile, that carries, pulls, or transports any
sign or billboard for the primary purpose of advertising.
3)Declares that enactment of these provisions does not create
any inference that the Legislature intends to occupy the field
of mobile billboard advertising displays or preempt any local
ordinance that regulates those displays, and would expressly
provide that this bill does not preempt a city or county from
adopting or enforcing an ordinance regulating the displays.
4)Exempts a vehicle that displays an advertisement or identifies
the business of its owner from the prohibition against the
parking of any mobile billboard advertising display, so long
as the vehicle is engaged in the usual business or regular
work of the owner and is not parked for the primary purpose of
advertising.
EXISTING LAW:
5)Authorizes the legislative body of a city or county to adopt
ordinances that regulate, among other things, signs and
billboards.
6)Permits local authorities to enact, by ordinance or
resolution, prohibitions or restrictions on the stopping,
parking, or standing of vehicles, including, on certain
streets or highways, or portions thereof, during all or
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certain hours of the day.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
COMMENTS : AB 2756 is intended to address the increasingly
prolific use of mobile billboard advertising displays. The
billboards advertise goods and services from car alarm systems
to wedding services to massages. The displays are typically
secured to trailers, driven to a location, unhitched, and parked
in a street-side parking spot, sometimes for days on end.
Apparently, hundreds of these mobile billboards have sprung up
in cities such as Los Angeles and communities are experiencing
them as visual blight. Additionally, the trailers reduce
available on-street parking.
Although existing state law authorizes local authorities to
regulate and restrict the parking of non-motorized vehicles on
public streets, any attempts to date to regulate or prohibit
mobile billboards from being parked and left standing have been
met with legal challenges.
This bill seeks to overcome these challenges by explicitly
stating that parking these billboards is banned.
Double-referred : AB 2756 was heard on April 12, 2010 in the
Committee on Governmental Organization and passed out on a 13-4
vote.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
None on file
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Janet Dawson / TRANS. / (916) 319-2093