Bill Text: AZ HB2443 | 2015 | Fifty-second Legislature 1st Regular | Introduced
Bill Title: Tourist attraction signage on highways
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-29 - Referred to House TI Committee [HB2443 Detail]
Download: Arizona-2015-HB2443-Introduced.html
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REFERENCE TITLE: tourist attraction signage on highways |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-second Legislature First Regular Session 2015
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HB 2443 |
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Introduced by Representative Montenegro
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AN ACT
amending section 28-7311, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to state highways and routes.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 28-7311, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
28-7311. Urban and rural logo sign programs; rules; definitions
A. The department may establish an urban and a rural logo sign program. Notwithstanding sections 28‑648, 28‑7048 and 28‑7053, as part of the program the department may contract with a third party to install and maintain specific services information signs, known as logo signs, on any class of state highway or interstate highway system in this state. If the department contracts with a third party, the third party shall agree in the contract to:
1. Furnish, install, maintain and replace signs for the benefit of business advertisers who provide gas, food, lodging, twenty-four hour pharmacy service, attraction and camping facilities for the general public.
2. Lease advertising space on the signs to operators of the facilities prescribed in paragraph 1 of this subsection.
B. Notwithstanding sections 28‑648, 28‑7048 and 28‑7053, as part of the rural logo sign program the department may contract with a third party to install and maintain specific services information signs, known as logo signs, on any class of state highway or interstate highway system, located outside of an urbanized area with a population of one hundred thousand or more persons of this state. If the department contracts with a third party, the third party shall agree in the contract to:
1. Furnish, install, maintain and replace signs for the benefit of business advertisers that provide gas, food, lodging, twenty-four hour pharmacy service, attraction and camping facilities for the general public.
2. Lease advertising space on the signs to operators of the facilities prescribed in paragraph 1 of this subsection.
C. The department shall adopt rules to implement and operate the logo sign programs. Costs incurred under the programs established by this section shall be paid under agreements negotiated between the department or third party and the business advertisers.
D. The department may enter into a revenue sharing agreement with the third party. The department shall deposit, pursuant to sections 35‑146 and 35‑147, revenues generated, less program operating costs, in the state highway fund established by section 28‑6991.
E. The department may not require the removal of a sign if all of the following apply:
1. The sign has been in place for at least twenty years.
2. The sign is identifying a tourist attraction in this state, including a privately owned attraction or activity if all of the following apply to the privately owned attraction or activity:
(a) It is nationally or regionally known.
(b) It is of outstanding interest to the traveling public.
(c) It receives at least four hundred thousand visitors annually.
(d) It has been at its location for at least twenty years.
F. Where the logo sign program is implemented, an attraction that has a sign described in subsection E of this section must contract for payment with the department. The contract must contain similar terms and value attribution as other department contracts under the logo sign program and must be based on the total cost of a sign under the logo sign program and not based on the value per square foot of the sign.
E. g. For the purposes of this section:
1. "Population" means the population determined in the most recent United States decennial census or in the most recent special census as provided in section 28‑6532.
2. "Urbanized area" means an urbanized area as defined in the decennial census by the United States bureau of the census.
