Signs; provides local government authority to regulate. (HB553)

Introduced By

Del. Danny Marshall (R-Danville)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Regulation of signage in highway rights of way.  Permits local governing bodies to adopt ordinances to control and enforce signage regulation in public highway rights of way. The locality may treat a violation of its sign control ordinance as a zoning violation and impose a penalty that it may then retain. The term excavate is amended so installing a sign by pushing metal, plastic, or wooden poles is not deemed excavation. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Passed

History

DateAction
01/12/2010Committee
01/12/2010Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10103503D
01/12/2010Referred to Committee on Transportation
01/15/2010Assigned Transportation sub: #1
02/08/2010Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (4-Y 0-N)
02/09/2010Reported from Transportation with substitute (20-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
02/09/2010Committee substitute printed 10104852D-H1
02/11/2010Read first time
02/12/2010Read second time
02/12/2010Committee substitute agreed to 10104852D-H1
02/12/2010Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB553H1
02/15/2010Read third time and passed House (94-Y 4-N)
02/15/2010VOTE: --- PASSAGE (94-Y 4-N) (see vote tally)
02/16/2010Constitutional reading dispensed
02/16/2010Referred to Committee on Transportation
02/25/2010Reported from Transportation (15-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/01/2010Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/02/2010Read third time
03/02/2010Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
03/09/2010Enrolled
03/09/2010Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB553ER)
03/09/2010Signed by Speaker
03/11/2010Signed by President
04/13/2010Governor's recommendation received by House
04/20/2010Placed on Calendar
04/21/2010House concurred in Governor's recommendation (82-Y 13-N)
04/21/2010VOTE: --- ADOPTION (82-Y 13-N) (see vote tally)
04/21/2010Senate concurred in Governor's recommendation (39-Y 0-N) (see vote tally)
04/21/2010G Governor's recommendation adopted
04/21/2010Reenrolled
04/21/2010Reenrolled bill text (HB553ER2)
04/21/2010Signed by Speaker as reenrolled
04/21/2010Signed by President as reenrolled
04/21/2010Enacted, Chapter 832 (effective 7/1/10)
04/21/2010G Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0832)

Video

This bill was discussed on the floor of the General Assembly. Below is all of the video that we have of that discussion, 1 clip in all, totaling 1 minute.

Comments

Cindy Brookshire writes:

First, check with Miss Utility and you will find out that real estate companies have caused gas line problems at least 49 times when they've excavated for their signs, so that word should stay in.

Second, holding volunteers personally liable is a travesty. Roadside signage is a particularly heinous type of litter because it impairs the safety of motorists, pollutes the scenery and the wire frames endanger those trying to mow. If the signs are posted on utility poles they endanger utility workers.

To compound this litter by penalizing volunteers who help reduce it sounds like you’re trying to protect the companies who pay for this advertising litter and their paid subcontractors that put the litter there in the first place. It also sounds like politicians just want to put their signs where they want to, and are rolling over everyone else.

Please don’t penalize or criminalize volunteers who are working daily to keep their communities clean. If anything, give us legislation that makes our volunteer load easier and protects us.

With the use of technology – e-mail, radio, Facebook, Twitter, Craigslist, Google groups, automated phone calls, GPS – to get the word out, there is no reason for roadside advertising signs.