California Business and Professions Code CHAPTER 2.5 - On-Premises Advertising Displays

• Section 5490.
  (a) This chapter applies only to lawfully erected on-premises advertising displays.(b) As used in this chapter, “on-premises advertising displays” means any structure, housing, sign, device, figure, statuary,...
• Section 5490.5.
  (a) For purposes of this chapter, “message center” is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no more...
• Section 5491.
  Notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5200), except as provided in this chapter, no on-premises advertising display which is used for any...
• Section 5491.1.
  (a) Any city or county adopting or amending any ordinance or regulation that regulates or prohibits the use of any on-premises advertising display that is more...
• Section 5491.2.
  (a) A city or county may impose reasonable fees upon all owners or lessees of on-premises business advertising displays for the purpose of covering its actual...
• Section 5492.
  For purposes of compliance with Section 5491, fair and just compensation is presumed to be paid upon the payment of the fair market value of...
• Section 5493.
  (a) As an alternative to payment of fair and just compensation under Section 5492, a city or county may pay fair and just compensation to the...
• Section 5494.
  The ordinances and regulations of any city or county, introduced or adopted prior to March 12, 1983, which have provided for amortization, and which make...
• Section 5495.
  A city or county whose ordinances or regulations are introduced or adopted after March 12, 1983, and any amendments or modifications to those ordinances and...
• Section 5495.5.
  A city or county with an ordinance or regulation introduced or adopted prior to March 12, 1983, which is applicable to designated areas within the...
• Section 5496.
  A city or county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5491 is not in violation of that section if it...
• Section 5497.
  A city or county, whose ordinances or regulations were introduced or adopted after March 12, 1983, or any amendments to those ordinances and regulations, is...
• Section 5498.
  (a) Sections 5491 and 5495 do not apply to redevelopment project areas created pursuant to the Community Redevelopment Law (Part 1 (commencing with Section 33000) of...
• Section 5498.1.
  A city or county may not deny, refuse to issue, or condition the issuance of a business license or a permit to construct a new...
• Section 5498.2.
  (a) During the amortization period for a nonconforming legally in place on-premises advertising display’s continued use, a city or county may not deny, refuse to issue,...
• Section 5499.
  Regardless of any other provision of this chapter or other law, no city or county shall require the removal of any on-premises advertising display on...

Last modified: October 22, 2018