96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
HB5946

 

Introduced 2/10/2010, by Rep. Lou Lang - Careen M. Gordon

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
225 ILCS 440/3.06   from Ch. 121, par. 503.06
225 ILCS 440/3.08   from Ch. 121, par. 503.08

    Amends the Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. Provides that the definition of "maintain" includes the periodic changing of advertising messages as well as the normal maintenance or repair of signs and sign structures. In a provision defining "erect", provides that the following shall not constitute normal maintenance or repair of a sign or sign structure: replacing more than 60% of the uprights, in whole or in part, of a wooden sign structure; replacing more than 30% of the length above ground of each broken, bent, or twisted support of a metal sign structure; raising the height above ground of a sign or sign structure; making a sign bigger; adding lighting; or similar activities that substantially change a sign or make a sign more valuable. Effective immediately.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 is
5 amended by changing Sections 3.06 and 3.08 as follows:
 
6     (225 ILCS 440/3.06)  (from Ch. 121, par. 503.06)
7     Sec. 3.06. "Maintain" means to allow to exist and includes
8 the periodic changing of advertising messages as well as the
9 normal maintenance or repair of signs and sign structures.
10 (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
 
11     (225 ILCS 440/3.08)  (from Ch. 121, par. 503.08)
12     Sec. 3.08. "Erect" means to construct, build, raise,
13 assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw or in any
14 other way bring into being or establish; but does not include
15 any of the foregoing activities when performed as an incident
16 to the change of advertising message or normal maintenance or
17 repair of a sign or sign structure. For the purposes of this
18 definition, the following shall not constitute normal
19 maintenance or repair of a sign or sign structure: replacing
20 more than 60% of the uprights, in whole or in part, of a wooden
21 sign structure; replacing more than 30% of the length above
22 ground of each broken, bent, or twisted support of a metal sign

 

 

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1 structure; raising the height above ground of a sign or sign
2 structure; making a sign bigger; adding lighting; or similar
3 activities that substantially change a sign or make a sign more
4 valuable.
5 (Source: P.A. 77-1815.)
 
6     Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
7 becoming law.