VIRGINIA LAW PORTAL

• Code of Virginia
• Virginia Administrative Code
• Constitution of Virginia
• Charters
• Authorities
• Compacts
• Uncodified Acts
• RIS Users (account required)

SEARCHABLE DATABASES

• Bills & Resolutions
  session legislation
• Bill Summaries
  session summaries
• Reports to the General Assembly
  House and Senate documents
• Legislative Liaisons
  State agency contacts

ACROSS SESSIONS

• Subject Index: Since 1995
• Bills & Resolutions: Since 1994
• Summaries: Since 1994

Developed and maintained by the Division of Legislative Automated Systems.

2010 SESSION

• | print version

HB 553 Signs; provides local government authority to regulate.

Introduced by: Daniel W. Marshall, III | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles | history

SUMMARY AS ENACTED WITH GOVERNOR'S RECOMMENDATION:

Regulation of signage in highway rights of way.  Allows county employees and volunteers who are acting as agents of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to remove and confiscate signs from the public right-of-way.  If a sign is confiscated by an employee or volunteer, the sign owner shall have the right to reclaim the sign within five business days of the date of such confiscation.  Finally, the legislation clarifies that a sign installed (on private property) that does not require use of tools or equipment does not trigger the requirement to call Miss Utility before installing the sign.  This bill is identical to SB 64 (Lucas).

SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE:

Regulation of signage in highway rights of way.  Allows county employees and volunteers who are acting as agents of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner to remove and confiscate signs from the public right-of-way.  If a sign is confiscated by an employee or volunteer, the sign owner shall have the right to reclaim the sign within 10 business days of the date of such confiscation.  Finally, the legislation clarifies that a sign installed (on private property) that does not require use of tools or equipment does not trigger the requirement to call Miss Utility before installing the sign.  This bill is identical to SB 64 (Lucas).

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Regulation of signage in highway rights of way.  Permits local governing bodies to adopt ordinances to control and enforce signage regulation in public highway rights of way. The locality may treat a violation of its sign control ordinance as a zoning violation and impose a penalty that it may then retain. The term excavate is amended so installing a sign by pushing metal, plastic, or wooden poles is not deemed excavation.