Bill Text: WV SB615 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Removing specific restrictions on outdoor advertisements
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-10 - To Transportation and Infrastructure [SB615 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-SB615-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 615
By Senators Phillips and Smith
[Introduced March 10, 2021; referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17-22-4 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the removal of specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 22. OUTDOOR ADVERTISING.
§17-22-4. General restrictions as to outdoor advertising.
The following restrictions shall
apply to all advertising signs, displays and devices erected and maintained
adjacent to any roads within the state road system, including federal-aid
interstate and primary roads.
(1) No advertising sign shall
may be erected or maintained which involves rapid motion or rotation of
the structure or any a part thereof. Provided,
That an An advertising sign that does involve involves
motion or rotation which is not rapid to effect changeable messages shall be
is permitted in accordance with legislative rules to be proposed by
the Division of Highways of the Department of Transportation in accordance with
the provisions of §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code;
(2) No advertising display or device shall use the word “stop” or “danger” or present or imply the need or requirement of stopping or the existence of danger;
(3) No advertising sign,
display or device shall may be a copy or imitate a traffic sign
or other official sign;
(4) No advertising display
or device shall may attempt or purport to direct traffic;
(5) No advertising sign shall
may contain lighting which is not shielded, and any lighting shall be of
such low intensity as not to cause glare or impair the vision of the operator
of any a motor vehicle;
(6) No advertising display
or device shall may be illuminated by any rapid flashing,
intermittent light or lights;
(7) No advertising display or device shall be painted, affixed, or attached to any natural feature;
(8) No advertising sign,
display or device shall may hinder the clear, unobstructed view
of approaching or merging traffic or obscure from view any traffic sign or
other official sign; and
(9) No advertising sign,
display or device shall be so located as to obscure may be located
where it obscures the view of any connecting road or intersection.
(10) No advertising
sign, display or device shall be erected, outside of any municipality, within
five hundred feet of any church, school, cemetery, public park, public
reservation, public playground or state or national forest except markers for
underground utility facilities;
(11) No advertising
sign, the permit for which has been applied for subsequent to December 31,
2003, that is composed of stacked sign faces, one on top of the other, on the
same structure, facing the same direction, each having more than three hundred
square feet is permitted;
(12) No advertising
device which is composed of separate sign faces in a side by side formation, on
the same structure, facing the same direction, each having an area of more than
three hundred square feet is permitted;
(13) No advertising
device, the permit for which has been applied for subsequent to December 31,
2003, which contains a sign facing a single direction may have an area greater
than six hundred seventy-two square feet: Provided, That cutouts and
extensions which expand the area may be allowed to the extent the area is
expanded by no more than thirty percent of its original permitted
configuration;
(14) No more than one
sign structure is permitted at a location
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate specific statutory restrictions on outdoor advertisement.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
