California Code of Regulations
Title 4 - Business Regulations
Division 6 - Outdoor Advertising, Department of Transportation
Chapter 3 - Measurements for Placing an Outdoor Advertising Display Along an Interstate or a Primary Highway
Section 2401 - Measurement of Distances from a Commercial or Industrial Activity
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) A Display is placed in a business area when the Display is on property zoned as commercial or industrial by the local zoning authority and is within 1,000 feet of a commercial or industrial activity.
(b) To determine if a Display is within 1,000 feet of a commercial or industrial activity, measurement is made "in each direction". Measurement of distance to a Display is made along or parallel to the edge of the pavement of the main-traveled way from the outer edge of a commercial or industrial activity. The display also is within 1,000 feet when measuring the summation of the distance of "A" and "B". Refer to Diagram 3-1, Figures 1 and 2.
(c) An "activity" is located within 1,000 feet of the right of way and includes all buildings, structures, and related commercial and industrial uses, such as a driveway or a parking lot.
(d) Examples of activities not considered commercial or industrial include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Amendment
filed 8-21-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No.
34).
2. Repealer of former section
2401 and renumbering of former
section 2402 to section
2401, including amendment of
section heading, section and NOTE, filed 9-20-99; operative 10-20-99 (Register
99, No. 39).
3. New subsection (d)(6) filed 11-23-2004; operative
12-23-2004 (Register 2004, No. 48).
Note: Authority cited: Sections 5250 and 5415, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Sections 5205, 5223 and 5408, Business and Professions Code; 23 CFR Section 750.708; and 23 USC Section 131.
