Bill Text: CA AB2559 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Enrolled

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Bill Title: Visitor centers: guide signs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-09-24 - Vetoed by Governor. [AB2559 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2559-Enrolled.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2559	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2016
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 24, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 2, 2016
	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 101.16 to the Streets and Highways Code,
relating to highways.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2559, 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 any visitor center seeking a sign if the visitor center is
located within 2 miles from the highway intersection. 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.


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.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 21401 of the Vehicle Code,
the department shall authorize a guide sign for a visitor center
seeking a sign if the visitor center is located within two miles from
the highway intersection.
   (b) The department shall establish and charge a visitor center
seeking a sign under this section a fee to fully offset the
department's cost to place and maintain the sign.