California Business and Professions Code

§ 5490

BPC § 5490 Effective Jan 1, 1998Div. 3 · Ch. 2.5

Statute text

(a)This chapter applies only to lawfully erected on-premises advertising displays.

(b)As used in this chapter, “on-premises advertising displays” means any structure, housing, sign, device, figure, statuary, painting, display, message placard, or other contrivance, or any part thereof, that has been designed, constructed, created, intended, or engineered to have a useful life of 15 years or more, and intended or used to advertise, or to provide data or information in the nature of advertising, for any of the following purposes:

(1)To designate, identify, or indicate the name or business of the owner or occupant of the premises upon which the advertising display is located.

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Legislative history

Amended (as amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 495) by Stats. 1997, Ch. 471, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998. Note: Sec. 3 of Ch. 471 repealed Sec. 3 of Stats. 1996, Ch. 495, which otherwise would have repealed, on January 1, 1999, the amendment of this section by Sec. 2 of Ch. 495.