Bill Text: MI HB6299 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Highways; signs; regulation of signs on highways; modify. Amends sec. 4 of 1972 PA 106 (MCL 252.304).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-09-06 - Bill Electronically Reproduced 09/05/2018 [HB6299 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-HB6299-Introduced.html
HOUSE BILL No. 6299
September 5, 2018, Introduced by Rep. LaFave and referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
A bill to amend 1972 PA 106, entitled
"Highway advertising act of 1972,"
by amending section 4 (MCL 252.304), as amended by 2014 PA 2.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 4. (1) This act regulates and controls the size,
lighting, and spacing of signs and sign structures in adjacent
areas and occupies the whole field of that regulation and control
except for the following:
(a) A county, city, village, township, or charter township may
enact ordinances to regulate and control the operation, size,
lighting, and spacing of signs and sign structures but shall not
permit a sign or sign structure that is otherwise prohibited by
this act or require or cause the removal of lawfully erected signs
or sign structures subject to this act without the payment of just
compensation. A sign owner shall apply for an annual permit
pursuant to section 6 for each sign to be maintained or to be
erected within that county, city, village, township, or charter
township. ,
or township. A sign erected or
maintained within that
county,
city, village, township, or charter township shall must
also
comply with all applicable provisions of this act. An Subject
to subsection (2), an ordinance or code adopted by a county, city,
village, township, or charter township that regulates the
operation, size, lighting, or spacing of signs and sign structures
and that is more stringent than the laws of this state is not made
void by this act.
(b) A county, city, village, charter township, or township
vested by law with authority to enact zoning codes has full
authority under its own zoning codes or ordinances to establish
commercial or industrial areas and the actions of a county, city,
village,
charter township, or township in so doing shall must be
accepted for the purposes of this act. However, except as provided
in subdivision (a), zoning that is not part of a comprehensive
zoning plan and is taken primarily to permit outdoor advertising
structures
shall must not be accepted for purposes of this act. A
zone in which limited commercial or industrial activities are
permitted as incidental to other primary land uses is not a
commercial or industrial zone for outdoor advertising control
purposes.
(c)
An Subject to subsection
(2), an ordinance or code of a
city, village, township, or charter township that existed on March
31, 1972 and that prohibits signs or sign structures is not made
void by this act.
(d) A county ordinance that regulates and controls the size,
lighting,
and spacing of signs and sign structures shall only apply
applies in a township within the county if the township has not
enacted an ordinance to regulate and control the size, lighting,
and spacing of signs and sign structures.
(e) A county, on its own initiative or at the request of a
city, village, township, or charter township within that county,
may prepare a model ordinance as described in subdivision (a). A
city, village, township, or charter township within that county may
adopt the model ordinance.
(2) A county, city, village, township, or charter township
shall not adopt an ordinance or code that restricts, prohibits, or
places a limitation on a sign or sign structure based on the
content of the sign, unless the ordinance or code is narrowly
tailored to achieve a compelling governmental interest. An
ordinance or code of a county, city, village, township, or charter
township that restricts, prohibits, or places a limitation on a
sign or sign structure based on the content of the sign is void
unless the ordinance or code is narrowly tailored to achieve a
compelling governmental interest.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days
after the date it is enacted into law.