SB3013 102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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102ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2021 and 2022
SB3013

Introduced 1/5/2022, by Sen. Sally J. Turner

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

225 ILCS 440/3.12

from Ch. 121, par. 503.12

Amends the Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971. Provides that with respect to signs owned or leased by an individual, an area zoned for residential, business, commercial, or industrial activities that is adjacent to and within 660 feet of an Interstate highway and that is in Township 18 North, Range 4 West in the Thirty-Fourth Section of the Third Principal Meridian, shall be deemed a "business area". Provides that the zoning must have been a part of comprehensive zoning and not have been created primarily to permit outdoor advertising structures. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 is amended by changing Section 3.12 as follows:

(225 ILCS 440/3.12) (from Ch. 121, par. 503.12)

Sec. 3.12. Business area. "Business area" means any part of an area adjacent to and within 660 feet of the right-of-way which is zoned for business, commercial or industrial activities under the authority of any law of this State; or not so zoned, but which constitutes an unzoned commercial or industrial area as defined in Section 3.11. However, as to signs along Interstate highways, the term "business area" includes only areas which are within incorporated limits of any city, village, or incorporated town, as such limits existed on September 21, 1959, and which are zoned for industrial or commercial use, or both, or to portions of Interstate highways which traverse other areas where the land use, as of September 21, 1959, was established by State law as industrial or commercial, or both.

With respect to signs owned or leased by the State or a political subdivision, an area zoned for business, commercial, or industrial activities that is adjacent to and within 660 feet of an Interstate highway and that is in Township 41 North, Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian, shall be deemed a "business area" for purposes of this Act. This zoning must have been a part of comprehensive zoning and not have been created primarily to permit outdoor advertising structures as described in 23 CFR 750. With respect to signs owned or leased by an individual, an area zoned for residential, business, commercial, or industrial activities that is adjacent to and within 660 feet of an Interstate highway and that is in Township 18 North, Range 4 West in the Thirty-Fourth Section of the Third Principal Meridian, shall be deemed a "business area" for the purposes of this Act. This zoning must have been a part of comprehensive zoning and not have been created primarily to permit outdoor advertising structures as described in 23 CFR 750.

(Source: P.A. 98-56, eff. 7-5-13.)

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.