Bill Text: HI SB4 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating To Outdoor Advertising Devices And Billboards.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-12-11 - Carried over to 2024 Regular Session. [SB4 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2024-SB4-Introduced.html
THE SENATE |
S.B. NO. |
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THIRTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2023 |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DEVICES AND BILLBOARDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
The purpose of this Act is to clarify the definitions of the terms "billboards" and "outdoor advertising device" and the acts included in the phrases "displaying an outdoor advertising device" and "maintaining a billboard" as used in part V of chapter 445, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which governs county licenses for outdoor advertising.
SECTION 2. Section 445-111, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§445-111
Definitions. As used in this
[chapter:] part:
[(1) "Outdoor advertising
device" means any device which is:
(A) A writing, picture, painting, light,
model, display, emblem, sign, or similar device situated outdoors, which is so
designed that it draws the attention of persons in any public highway, park, or
other public place to any property, services, entertainment, or amusement, bought,
sold, rented, hired, offered, or otherwise traded in by any person, or to the
place or person where or by whom such buying, selling, renting, hiring,
offering, or other trading is carried on;
(B) A sign, poster, notice, bill, or
word or words in writing situated outdoors and so designed that it draws the
attention of and is read by persons in any public highway, park, or other
public place; or
(C) A sign, writing, symbol, or emblem
made of lights, or a device or design made of lights so designed that its
primary function is not giving light, which is situated outdoors and draws the
attention of persons in any public highway, park or other public place.
(2)]
"Billboard" [is] means
any board, fence, or similar structure, whether free-standing or supported by
or placed against any wall or structure[, which] that is designed
or used for the principal purpose of having outdoor advertising devices placed,
posted, or fastened upon it.
[(3) Any person who, by oneself or through
any agent or independent contractor, maintains or displays] "Displaying
an outdoor advertising device" includes:
(1) Maintaining or displaying any
outdoor advertising device[, or any person who knowingly causes] by
oneself or through any agent or independent contractor;
(2) Knowingly causing any outdoor
advertising device advertising [the person's] one's own products,
merchandise, or services to be displayed by oneself or any agent or independent
contractor; or
(3) In case of any person [who,
being] in possession of any land, building, or part of a building, [permits]
permitting any outdoor advertising device on the land, building, or part
of a building[, shall be deemed to be displaying an outdoor advertising
device].
[(4) Any person, who, by
oneself or through any agent or independent contractor, erects or maintains]
"Maintaining a billboard" includes:
(1) Erecting or maintaining a
billboard, or [places] placing any outdoor advertising
device upon a billboard, [or any person who knowingly causes] by
oneself or through any agent or independent contractor;
(2) Knowingly causing any of [the
person's] one's own products, merchandise, or services to be
advertised upon a billboard by oneself or through any agent or independent
contractor; or
(3) In case of any person [who,
being] in possession of any land, building, or part of a building,
knowingly [permits] permitting a billboard to be erected or to
remain on the land, building, or part of a building[, shall be deemed to be
maintaining a billboard].
"Outdoor
advertising device" means any device that is:
(1) A writing, picture, painting, light,
model, display, emblem, sign, or similar device situated outdoors, that is
designed in a manner that draws the attention of persons in any public highway,
park, or other public place to any property, services, entertainment, or
amusement bought, sold, rented, hired, offered, or otherwise traded in by any
person, or to the place or person where or by whom the buying, selling,
renting, hiring, offering, or other trading is carried on;
(2) A sign, poster, notice, bill, or
word or words in writing situated outdoors and designed in a manner that draws
the attention of and is read by persons in any public highway, park, or other
public place; or
(3) A sign, writing, symbol, or emblem made of lights, or a device or design made of lights designed so that its primary function is not giving light, and that is situated outdoors and draws the attention of persons in any public highway, park, or other public place."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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Report Title:
County Licenses; Outdoor Advertising; Definitions
Description:
Clarifies the definitions of the terms "billboards" and "outdoor advertising device" and the acts included in the phrases "displaying an outdoor advertising device" and "maintaining a billboard" as used in state law that governs county licenses for outdoor advertising.
The summary description
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not legislation or evidence of legislative intent.