California Business and Professions Code ARTICLE 7 - Regulations

• Section 5400.
  No advertising structure may be maintained unless the name of the person owning or maintaining it, is plainly displayed thereon.(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)
• Section 5401.
  No advertising structure shall be placed unless it is built to withstand a wind pressure of 20 pounds per square foot of exposed surface. Any...
• Section 5402.
  No person shall display or cause or permit to be displayed upon any advertising structure or sign, any statements or words of an obscene, indecent...
• Section 5403.
  No advertising display shall be placed or maintained in any of the following locations or positions or under any of the following conditions or if...
• Section 5404.
  No advertising display shall be placed outside of any business district as defined in the Vehicle Code or outside of any unincorporated city, town or...
• Section 5405.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no advertising display shall be placed or maintained within 660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way of,...
• Section 5405.3.
  Nothing in this chapter, including, but not limited to, Section 5405, shall prohibit the placing of temporary political signs, unless a federal agency determines that...
• Section 5405.5.
  In addition to those displays permitted pursuant to Section 5405, displays erected and maintained pursuant to regulations of the director, which will not be in...
• Section 5405.6.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no outdoor advertising display that exceeds 10 feet in either length or width, shall be built on any land...
• Section 5406.
  The provisions of Sections 5226 and 5405 shall not apply to bonus segments which traverse and abut on commercial or industrial zones within the boundaries...
• Section 5407.
  The provisions of Sections 5226 and 5405 shall not apply to penalty segments which are located, or which are to be located, in business areas...
• Section 5408.
  In addition to the advertising displays permitted by Section 5405 to be placed within 660 feet of the edge of the right-of-way of interstate or...
• Section 5408.1.
  (a) No advertising display shall be placed or maintained beyond 660 feet from the edge of the right-of-way of an interstate or primary highway if such...
• Section 5408.2.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an advertising display is a lawfully erected advertising display and, upon application and payment of the application fee,...
• Section 5408.3.
  Notwithstanding Section 5408, a city or a county with land use jurisdiction over the property may adopt an ordinance that establishes standards for the spacing...
• Section 5408.5.
  In addition to the advertising displays permitted by Sections 5405 and 5408, advertising displays located on bus passenger shelters or benches and conforming to the...
• Section 5408.7.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that this section shall not serve as a precedent for other changes to the law regarding outdoor advertising...
• Section 5410.
  Any advertising display located within 660 feet of the edge of the right-of-way of, and the copy of which is visible from, any penalty segment,...
• Section 5412.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no advertising display which was lawfully erected anywhere within this state shall be compelled to be removed, nor...
• Section 5412.1.
  A city, county, or city and county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that...
• Section 5412.2.
  A city or city and county, whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that section...
• Section 5412.3.
  A county whose ordinances or regulations are otherwise in full compliance with Section 5412, is not in violation of that section if the county elects...
• Section 5412.4.
  Section 5412 shall not be applied in any judicial proceeding which was filed and served by any city, county, or city and county prior to...
• Section 5412.6.
  The requirement by a governmental entity that a lawfully erected display be removed as a condition or prerequisite for the issuance or continued effectiveness of...
• Section 5413.
  Prior to commencing judicial proceedings to compel the removal of an advertising display, the director may elect to negotiate with the person entitled to compensation...
• Section 5414.
  Proceedings to compel the removal of displays and to determine the compensation required by this chapter shall be conducted pursuant to Title 7 (commencing with...
• Section 5415.
  The director shall prescribe and enforce regulations for the erection and maintenance of advertising displays permitted by Sections 5226, 5405, and 5408 consistent with Section...
• Section 5416.
  The director shall seek, and may enter into, agreements with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States and shall take such steps as may...
• Section 5417.
  From state funds appropriated by the Legislature for such purposes and from federal funds made available for such purposes, the California Transportation Commission may allocate...
• Section 5418.
  The California Transportation Commission is authorized to allocate sufficient funds from the State Highway Account in the State Transportation Fund that are available for capital...
• Section 5418.1.
  When allocating funds pursuant to Section 5418, the commission shall consider, and may designate for expenditure, all or any part of such funds in accordance...
• Section 5419.
  (a) The director shall seek agreement with the Secretary of Transportation of the United States, or his successor, under provisions of Section 131 of Title 23...

Last modified: October 22, 2018