Outdoor advertising displays: City of Hawthorne.

Existing law, the Outdoor Advertising Act, provides for the regulation by the Department of Transportation of an advertising display, as defined, within view of public highways. The act regulates, as an "off-premises advertising display," a display along a highway that generally advertises business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at a location other than the property where the display is located. The act does not apply to "on-premises advertising displays," which generally advertise business conducted or services rendered or goods produced or sold at the location where the display is located and which are separately regulated. This bill would subject digital displays owned by the City of Hawthorne that would otherwise be regulated as off-premises advertising displays to treatment as on-premises advertising displays, if certain requirements are met. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the City of Hawthorne.