FILED SENATE
Mar 7, 2019
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 208
SESSION 2019 PRINCIPAL CLERK
S D
SENATE BILL DRS35087-LU-81A
Short Title: Remove Size Restrictions/Certain Polit. Signs. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators McInnis, Daniel, and Hise (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO REMOVE THE SIZE RESTRICTIONS FOR POLITICAL SIGNS PLACED ON
3 PRIVATE PROPERTY WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE PROPERTY OWNER.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5 SECTION 1. G.S. 136-32 reads as rewritten:
6 "§ 136-32. Regulation of signs.
7 …
8 (d) Sign Placement. – The permittee must obtain the permission of any property owner
9 of a residence, business, or religious institution fronting the right-of-way where a sign would be
10 erected. Signs must be placed in accordance with the following:
11 (1) No sign shall be permitted in the right-of-way of a fully controlled access
12 highway.
13 (2) No sign shall be closer than three feet from the edge of the pavement of the
14 road.
15 (3) No sign shall obscure motorist visibility at an intersection.
16 (4) No sign shall be higher than 42 inches above the edge of the pavement of the
17 road.
18 (5) No sign shall be larger than 864 square inches.
19 (6) No sign shall obscure or replace another sign.
20 (d1) Subdivision (d)(4) or (d)(5) of this section shall not apply to a political sign that is
21 placed (i) on private property with the permission of the property owner and (ii) outside of any
22 State or municipal right-of-way.
23 …."
24 SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to political signs
25 placed on or after that date.
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Statutes affected:
Filed: 136-32
Edition 1: 136-32