California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

• Section 5200.
  This chapter of the Business and Professions Code constitutes the chapter on advertisers. It may be cited as the Outdoor Advertising Act.(Repealed and added by...
• Section 5201.
  Unless the context otherwise requires, the general provisions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch.
• Section 5202.
  “Advertising display” refers to advertising structures and to signs.(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)
• Section 5203.
  “Advertising structure” means a structure of any kind or character erected, used, or maintained for outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any poster, bill, printing, painting...
• Section 5204.
  “Bonus segment” means any segment of an interstate highway which was covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and the Collier-Z'berg Act, namely,...
• Section 5205.
  “Business area” means an area within 1,000 feet, measured in each direction, from the nearest edge of a commercial or industrial building or activity and...
• Section 5206.
  “Centerline of the highway” means a line equidistant from the edges of the median separating the main traveled way of a divided highway, or the...
• Section 5208.
  “Collier-Z'berg Act” refers to Chapter 128, Statutes of 1964 (First Extraordinary Session).(Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)
• Section 5208.6.
  “Department” means the Department of Transportation.(Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 649, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1993.)
• Section 5209.
  “Director” refers to the Director of Transportation of the State of California.(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 579.)
• Section 5210.
  “Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect before October 22, 1965.(Repealed...
• Section 5211.
  “Flashing” is a light or message that changes more than once every four seconds.(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 787, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2001.)
• Section 5212.
  “Freeway,” for the purposes of this chapter only, means a divided arterial highway for through traffic with full control of access and with grade separations...
• Section 5213.
  “Highway” includes roads, streets, boulevards, lanes, courts, places, commons, trails, ways or other rights-of-way or easements used for or laid out and intended for the...
• Section 5214.
  “Highway Beautification Act of 1965” refers to Section 131 of Title 23 of the United States Code, as in effect October 22, 1965.(Repealed and added...
• Section 5215.
  “Interstate highway” means any highway at any time officially designated as a part of the national system of interstate and defense highways by the director...
• Section 5216.
  (a) “Landscaped freeway” means a section or sections of a freeway that is now, or hereafter may be, improved by the planting at least on one...
• Section 5216.1.
  “Lawfully erected” means, in reference to advertising displays, advertising displays which were erected in compliance with state laws and local ordinances in effect at the...
• Section 5216.3.
  “Main-traveled way” is the traveled way of a highway on which through traffic is carried. In the case of a divided highway, the traveled way...
• Section 5216.4.
  “Message center” is an advertising display where the message is changed more than once every two minutes, but no more than once every four seconds.(Added...
• Section 5216.5.
  “Nonconforming advertising display” is an advertising display that was lawfully placed, but that does not conform to the provisions of this chapter, or the administrative...
• Section 5216.6.
  (a) “Officially designated scenic highway or scenic byway” is any state highway that has been officially designated and maintained as a state scenic highway pursuant to...
• Section 5218.
  “Penalty segment” means any segment of a highway located in this state which was not covered by the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1958 and...
• Section 5219.
  “Person” includes natural person, firm, cooperative, partnership, association, limited liability company, and corporation.(Amended by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1010, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 1995.)
• Section 5220.
  “Primary highway” means any highway, other than an interstate highway, designated as a part of the federal-aid primary system in existence on June 1, 1991,...
• Section 5221.
  “Sign” refers to any card, cloth, paper, metal, painted or wooden sign of any character placed for outdoor advertising purposes on or to the ground...
• Section 5222.
  “660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way” means 660 feet measured from the edge of the right-of-way horizontally along a line normal or perpendicular...
• Section 5222.1.
  “State highway system” means the state highway system as described in Section 300 of the Streets and Highways Code.(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 991, Sec....
• Section 5223.
  “Unzoned commercial or industrial area” means an area not zoned under authority of state law in which the land use is characteristic of that generally...
• Section 5224.
  “Visible” means capable of being seen (whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person of normal visual acuity.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)
• Section 5225.
  The verb, “to place” and any of its variants, as applied to advertising displays, includes the maintaining and the erecting, constructing, posting, painting, printing, tacking,...
• Section 5226.
  The regulation of advertising displays adjacent to any interstate highway or primary highway as provided in Section 5405 is hereby declared to be necessary to...
• Section 5227.
  It is the intention of the Legislature to occupy the whole field of regulation by the provisions of this chapter except that nothing in this...
• Section 5228.
  It is declared to be the intent of the Legislature in enacting the provisions of this chapter regulating advertising displays adjacent to highways included in...
• Section 5229.
  The provisions of this chapter shall not be construed to permit a person to place or maintain in existence on or adjacent to any street,...
• Section 5230.
  The governing body of any city, county, or city and county may enact ordinances, including, but not limited to, land use or zoning ordinances, imposing...
• Section 5231.
  The governing body of any city or city and county may enact ordinances requiring licenses or permits, or both, in addition to those imposed by...

Last modified: October 22, 2018