Section 5200.

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 (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5201.

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 (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5202.

5202. “Advertising display” refers to advertising structures and to signs. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5203.

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 or other advertisement of any kind whatsoever may be placed, including statuary, for advertising purposes. “Advertising structure” does not include: (a) Official notices issued by any court or public body […]

Section 5204.

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, any such segment which is constructed upon right-of-way, the entire width of which was acquired subsequent to July 1, 1956. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5205.

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 which is zoned under authority of state law primarily to permit industrial or commercial activities or an unzoned commercial or industrial area. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. […]

Section 5206.

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 centerline of the main traveled way of a nondivided highway. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5208.

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 (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)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.

5208.6. “Department” means the Department of Transportation. (Added by Stats. 1992, Ch. 649, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1993.)

Section 5209.

5209. “Director” refers to the Director of Transportation of the State of California. (Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 579.)

Section 5210.

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 and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5211.

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.

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 at intersections. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5213.

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 public passage of vehicles or of vehicles and persons. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5214.

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 by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5215.

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 and approved by appropriate authority of the federal government. (Repealed and added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 991.)

Section 5216.

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 side or on the median of the freeway right-of-way of lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers, or other ornamental vegetation requiring reasonable maintenance. (b) Planting for the purpose of soil erosion control; […]

Section 5216.1.

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 time of their erection or which were subsequently brought into full compliance with state laws and local ordinances, except that the term does not apply to any advertising display […]

Section 5216.3.

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 of each of the separate roadways for traffic in opposite directions is a main-traveled way. Main-traveled way does not include facilities such as frontage roads, ramps, auxiliary lanes, parking […]

Section 5216.4.

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 by Stats. 2000, Ch. 787, Sec. 5. Effective January 1, 2001.)