SENATE BILL No. 457

 

 

June 14, 2017, Introduced by Senators PROOS, HANSEN and EMMONS and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

 

     A bill to amend 1972 PA 106, entitled

 

"Highway advertising act of 1972,"

 

by amending section 5 (MCL 252.305), as amended by 1998 PA 533.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 5. (1) A person shall not engage or continue to engage in

 

outdoor advertising through the erection, use, or maintenance of

 

any signs in an adjacent area where if the facing of the sign is

 

visible from an interstate highway, freeway, or primary highway,

 

except as provided in this act. A sign having a facing visible from

 

more than 1 state highway or other public road shall comply with

 

the requirements for outdoor advertising for each state highway and

 

each public road from which it is visible.

 

     (2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this act, a

 

religious organization sign or a sign erected by a nonprofit

 

organization may be erected within the right-of-way of a highway if


the department, in its discretion, determines that erection of the

 

sign in the right-of-way is safe.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.