AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

96

CHAPTER 127

Statutes of 2023

[ Approved by Governor July 27, 2023. Filed with Secretary of State July 27, 2023. ]

Introduced by Assembly Member Hoover

February 16, 2023

An act to add Section 101.18 to the Streets and Highways Code, relating to transportation.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: yes   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

The Federal Highway Administration publishes the national Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, which is incorporated by reference into federal law, to set the national standard for all traffic control devices installed on any street, highway, or bicycle trail open to public travel. Federal law authorizes the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices as a supplement to the federal manual, and requires it to be in substantial conformance with the federal manual. The California manual provides criteria for supplemental destination signs for publicly owned and private nonprofit museums that have minimum annual attendance between 200,000 and 1,000,000 people and that are within 2 or 3 miles from the highway.

This bill would require the department to amend the California manual to allow supplemental destination signs for publicly owned and private nonprofit museums that have minimum annual attendance of 50,000 people and that are within 5 miles from the highway. The bill would require the amendments be made in the department’s next edition or revision to the California manual.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 101.18 is added to the Streets and Highways Code, to read:

101.18.

(a) The department shall amend the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices to allow supplemental destination signs for museums that meet all the following:

(1) Have a minimum annual attendance of 50,000 persons, regardless if the museum is in a major metropolitan area, urbanized area, or rural area.

(2) Is within five miles of the highway, regardless if the museum is in a major metropolitan area, urbanized area, or rural area.

(b) The department shall make the amendments required by subdivision (a) in its next edition or revision to the California Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.