Outdoor advertising displays: exemptions.

The Outdoor Advertising Act provides for the Department of Transportation to regulate advertising displays, as defined, within view of public highways. The act exempts from its provisions advertising displays used exclusively for specified purposes, including advertising displays to advertise the sale, lease, or exchange of real property upon which the advertising display is placed. This bill would exempt from the act an advertising display used exclusively to display noncommercial public health, emergency, and safety messages from the County of San Joaquin on public property and equipment owned and operated by the County of San Joaquin in conformance with state law, federal law, regulations, and agreements. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of San Joaquin.