Connecticut 2011 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00993 Compare Versions

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11 General Assembly Raised Bill No. 993
22 January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3560
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2424 AN ACT CONCERNING FAIR ADVERTISING FOR CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL TOURISM.
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2626 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
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2828 Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 13a-123 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
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3030 (e) The following types of signs, displays and devices may, with the approval of and subject to regulations adopted by the commissioner, be permitted within the six-hundred-sixty-foot area of interstate, primary and other limited access state highways, except as prohibited by state statute, local ordinance or zoning regulation: (1) Directional and other official signs or notices, which signs and notices shall include, but not be limited to, signs and notices pertaining to natural wonders and scenic and historical attractions which are required or authorized by law; (2) signs, displays and devices advertising the sale or lease of the property upon which they are located; (3) signs, displays and devices advertising activities conducted on the property on which they are located; [and] (4) directional and other official signs or notices pertaining to farming that is part of the state's agricultural tourism; and (5) signs, displays or advertising devices which are in place for sixty days or less. Subject to regulations adopted by the commissioner and except as prohibited by state statute, local ordinance or zoning regulation signs, displays and devices may be erected and maintained within six hundred sixty feet of primary and other limited access state highways in areas which are zoned for industrial or commercial use under authority of law or located in unzoned commercial or industrial areas which areas shall be determined from actual land uses and defined by regulations of the commissioner. The regulations of the commissioner in regard to size, spacing and lighting shall apply to any segments of the interstate system which traverse commercial or industrial zones wherein the use of real property adjacent to the interstate system is subject to municipal regulation or control, or which traverse other areas where the land use, as of September 21, 1959, was clearly established under state law as industrial or commercial.
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3535 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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3838 This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
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48+To provide for the advertising of certain farming on highway signs.
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