Amended  IN  Senate  July 13, 2023
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 20, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 476

Introduced by Assembly Member Villapudua

February 07, 2023

An act to add Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 5488) to Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to digital displays.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 476, as amended, Villapudua. Digital displays: message centers: public health and safety: the County of San Joaquin.
The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the Department of Transportation to regulate advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act authorizes displays on property zoned commercial or industrial, as specified.
This bill would authorize the County of San Joaquin to construct, on public property owned by the county, digital displays message centers, as defined, that promote public health and safety. safety, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for County of San Joaquin.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Chapter 2.3 (commencing with Section 5488) is added to Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
CHAPTER  2.3. Digital Displays Message Centers

5488.
 The (a) Consistent with the requirements of the Outdoor Advertising Act (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 5400)), Chapter 2.5 (commencing with Section 5490), and the federal Highway Beautification Act of 1965 (23 U.S.C.A. Sec. 131), as applicable, the County of San Joaquin may construct, on public property owned by the county, digital displays that promote a message center that promotes public health and safety.
(b) As used in this chapter, “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.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique needs of the County of San Joaquin to construct, on public property owned by the county, digital displays that promote public health and safety.