Bill Summary: HB 5135

• Removes the word "advertising" from Connecticut General Statutes Section 8-2 to allow zoning commissions to regulate all signs, not just advertising signs, including height, size, location, brightness, and illumination.

• Signs installed before a municipality adopts brightness or illumination regulations are exempt from those new regulations if the signs lack the ability to calibrate brightness or illumination.

• Effective date is October 1, 2020, and the bill amends Connecticut General Statutes Section 8-2 concerning municipal zoning authority.

• Maintains all existing zoning commission powers to regulate building height, lot coverage, density, and land use while expanding sign regulation authority.