MI SB0879

Prohibits owners or operators of sexually oriented businesses from erecting, constructing, or maintaining outdoor signs that advertise or identify the business, effective January 1, 2011.

Requires any permitted signs to display only words or numbers and prohibits descriptions or depictions of specified sexual activities or anatomical areas.

Allows signs to display registered trademarks of the business or credit card companies under the Lanham Act or Michigan trademark law.

Applies the more restrictive provision when conflicts arise between this act, local zoning ordinances, or the highway advertising act of 1972.

Establishes civil fines of $5,000 to $10,000 per day of violation, with collected fines distributed to public libraries; authorizes the attorney general or local government attorneys to bring abatement actions in circuit court.