Highways: exit information signs.

Existing law requires the Department of Transportation to adopt rules and regulations that allow the placement, near exits on freeways in rural areas, of information signs identifying specific roadside businesses. Existing law prohibits the department from approving the placement of any sign within any urban area with a population of 5,000 or more. This bill would require the department, until January 1, 2020, to allow the placement of information signs along State Highway Route 65 within, or at exits leading to, the City of Lincoln. The bill would also require the department to report, by January 1, 2021, to the transportation committees of the Senate and Assembly on the implementation of this provision and on its recommendations as to whether the period of this authorization should be extended, and whether the authorization should be expanded to other urban areas.