Bill > HB4423

This bill amends existing West Virginia law concerning general restrictions on outdoor advertising along state roads, including federal-aid interstate and primary roads, by replacing "shall" with "may" in several provisions, indicating that these restrictions are now permissible rather than mandatory. Specifically, it removes prohibitions against advertising signs that involve rapid motion or rotation, provided they are not rapid enough to obscure changeable messages and comply with legislative rules from the Division of Highways. The bill also removes specific limitations on the size and configuration of stacked or side-by-side sign faces, as well as a restriction on the total area of a single-direction sign face, and eliminates a rule limiting sign structures to one per location. Additionally, it removes a provision that prohibited advertising signs within five hundred feet of churches, schools, cemeteries, public parks, or state/national forests outside of municipalities.

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