HB 228 Summary

• Permits outdoor advertising billboards within 660 feet of interstate, federal-aid primary, and National Highway System highways in commercially or industrially zoned areas, subject to specified size, lighting, and spacing regulations.

• Establishes maximum billboard dimensions of 800 square feet, 30 feet height, and 72 feet length, with minimum spacing of 1,400 feet between structures on the same side of highway and 500-foot setbacks from interchanges and rest areas.

• Restricts lighting to external floodlights and allows tri-vision/changeable message signs, but prohibits revolving beams, flashing lights, and illumination that creates glare or obstructs traffic signs and driver vision.

• Allows local governments to adopt more restrictive size, lighting, and spacing regulations but prohibits ordinances that ban off-premise billboards on commercial/industrial property within 660 feet of highways.

• Creates provisions for "conforming out of standard signs" to use new display technologies and for sign owners to relocate qualifying signs during highway construction with state compensation for reset costs.