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.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Highway Advertising Control Act of 1971 is
5amended by changing Section 3.12 as follows:
 
6    (225 ILCS 440/3.12)  (from Ch. 121, par. 503.12)
7    Sec. 3.12. Business area. "Business area" means any part
8of an area adjacent to and within 660 feet of the right-of-way
9which is zoned for business, commercial or industrial
10activities under the authority of any law of this State; or not
11so zoned, but which constitutes an unzoned commercial or
12industrial area as defined in Section 3.11. However, as to
13signs along Interstate highways, the term "business area"
14includes only areas which are within incorporated limits of
15any city, village, or incorporated town, as such limits
16existed on September 21, 1959, and which are zoned for
17industrial or commercial use, or both, or to portions of
18Interstate highways which traverse other areas where the land
19use, as of September 21, 1959, was established by State law as
20industrial or commercial, or both.
21    With respect to signs owned or leased by the State or a
22political subdivision, an area zoned for business, commercial,
23or industrial activities that is adjacent to and within 660

 

 

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1feet of an Interstate highway and that is in Township 41 North,
2Range 10 East of the Third Principal Meridian, shall be deemed
3a "business area" for purposes of this Act. This zoning must
4have been a part of comprehensive zoning and not have been
5created primarily to permit outdoor advertising structures as
6described in 23 CFR 750. With respect to signs owned or leased
7by an individual, an area zoned for residential, business,
8commercial, or industrial activities that is adjacent to and
9within 660 feet of an Interstate highway and that is in
10Township 18 North, Range 4 West in the Thirty-Fourth Section
11of the Third Principal Meridian, shall be deemed a "business
12area" for the purposes of this Act. This zoning must have been
13a part of comprehensive zoning and not have been created
14primarily to permit outdoor advertising structures as
15described in 23 CFR 750.
16(Source: P.A. 98-56, eff. 7-5-13.)
 
17    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18becoming law.