HB 2145 — Modifies provisions relating to outdoor advertising

SECOND REGULAR SESSION HOUSE[PERFECTED] COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO.

2145 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4656H.02CINTRODUCED JOSEPHBY ENGLER,REPRESENTATIVE ChiefKALBERLOH. Clerk AN ACT To repeal sections 226.510, 226.540, and 226.550, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof four new sections relating to outdoor advertising.

4656H.01P JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk AN ACT To repeal sections 226.540 and 226.550, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to outdoor advertising.

Sections 226.510,226.540 226.540, and 226.550, RSMo, are repealed and fourtwo new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 71.025,226.540 226.510, 226.540, and 226.550, to read as follows:

71.025.

Beginning August 28, 2026, city populations shall be included on city limit signs on state highways.

226.510.

As used in sections 226.500 to 226.600, the following words or phrases mean:

(1) "Freeway primary highway", that part of a federal-aid primary highway system, as of June 1, 1991, which has been constructed as divided, dual lane fully controlled access facilities with no access to the throughways except the established interchanges.

When existing two-lane highways are being upgraded to four-lane limited access, the regulations for freeway primary highways shall apply as of the date the state highways and transportation commission acquires all access rights on the adjoining right-of-way;

(2) "Interstate system", that portion of the national system of interstate highways located within the boundaries of Missouri, as officially designated or may be hereafter designated by the state highways and transportation commission with the approval of the Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to Title 23, United States Code, as amended;

(3) "Outdoor advertising", an outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other thing designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of the advertising or information contents of which is visible from any point EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law.

Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HCS HB 2145 2 of the traveled ways of the interstate or primary systems, except that none of the preceding items shall be deemed "outdoor advertising" when located on, attached to, or erected as part of, a fence, fences, or walls that enclose, in whole or in part, an athletic field that is owned or leased by a school or an entity described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended.

When the audience of such signs is intended to be the patrons, participants, or attendees of an event occurring at the athletic field, the signs shall not require permitting from the Missouri department of transportation;

(4) "Primary system", the federal-aid primary highways as of June 1, 1991, and all highways designated as part of the National Highway System by the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 and those highways subsequently designated as part of the National Highway System;

(5) "Rest area", an area or site established and maintained within or adjacent to the highway right-of-way under public supervision or control, for the convenience of the traveling public, except that the term shall not include automotive service stations, hotels, motels, restaurants or other commerce facilities of like nature;

(6) "Urban area", an urban place as designated by the Bureau of the Census, having a population of five thousand or more within boundaries to be fixed by the state highways and transportation commission and local officials in cooperation with each other and approved by the Secretary of Transportation, or an urbanized area as designated by the Bureau of the Census within boundaries to be fixed by the state highways and transportation commission and local officials and approved by the Secretary of Transportation.

The boundary of the urban area shall, as a minimum, encompass the entire urban place as designated by the Bureau of the Census.

HCSEXPLANATION HB— 2145Matter 3enclosed (b)in Externalbold-faced lighting,brackets such[thus] asin floodlights, thin line and gooseneck reflectors are permitted, provided the lightabove sourcebill is directednot uponenacted the face of the sign and is effectivelyintended shielded so as to preventbe beamsomitted or rays of light from being directed into any portion of the mainlaw. traveled way of the federal-aid primary highways as of June 1, 1991, and all highways designated as part of the National Highway System by the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 and those highways subsequently designated as part of the National Highway System and the lights are not of such intensity so as to cause glare, impair the vision of the driver of a motor vehicle, or otherwise interfere with a driver's operation of a motor vehicle;

Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language.

HB 2145 2 (b) External lighting, such as floodlights, thin line and gooseneck reflectors are permitted, provided the light source is directed upon the face of the sign and is effectively shielded so as to prevent beams or rays of light from being directed into any portion of the main traveled way of the federal-aid primary highways as of June 1, 1991, and all highways designated as part of the National Highway System by the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 and those highways subsequently designated as part of the National Highway System and the lights are not of such intensity so as to cause glare, impair the vision of the driver of a motor vehicle, or otherwise interfere with a driver's operation of a motor vehicle;

(a) On all interstate highways, freeways, and nonfreeway federal-aid primary highways as of June 1, 1991, and all highways designated as part of the National Highway HCS HB 2145 43 System by the National Highway System Designation Act of 1995 and those highways subsequently designated as part of the National Highway System:

On nonfreeway primary highways where there is an unzoned commercial or industrial area on one side of the road in accordance with this section, the unzoned HCS HB 2145 54 commercial or industrial area shall also include those lands located on the opposite side of the highway to the extent of the same dimensions.

HCS HB 2145 65 a.

except that, tax-exempt religious organizations as defined in subdivision (11) of section 313.005, service organizations as defined in subdivision (12) of section 313.005, veterans' organizations as defined in HCS HB 2145 76 subdivision (14) of section 313.005, and fraternal organizations as defined in subdivision (8) of section 313.005 shall be granted a permit for signs less than seventy-six square feet without payment of the fee.

HCS HB 2145 87 (3) All signs erected after March 30, 1972, which are in conformity with sections 226.500 to 226.600;