NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 5/18/2012.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 12-1108
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Kagan, Brown, Holbert, Kerr J., Labuda,
      Murray, Schafer S., Todd, Vigil, Wilson, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Scheffel, Grantham, Guzman, Hudak, Jahn, King S.,
      Newell, Schwartz, Williams S.
      
      
      Concerning the authority of the Colorado department of
           transportation to have signs within rights-of-way on the
           highway system.
      
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, 43-1-420, amend (1)
      (a) and (5) as follows:
      
           43-1-420.  Specific information signs and tourist-oriented
      directional signs authorized - rules. (1) (a)  The department may erect,
      administer, and maintain signs within highway rights-of-way upon the
      interstate system which rights-of-way are outside urbanized areas, for the
      display of advertising and information of interest to the traveling public,
      pursuant to the federal authority therefor as set forth in 23 U.S.C. secs. 109
      (d), 131 (f), and 315 and 49 CFR 1.48 (b).
      
           (5)  Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, the
      department may erect, administer, and maintain signs within highway
      rights-of-way upon the interstate system, which rights-of-way are within a
      populated area, other than a transportation management area, as determined
      by the United States bureau of the census in its latest census, for the display
      of advertising and information of interest to the traveling public, pursuant
      to the federal authority therefor as set forth in 23 U.S.C. secs. 109 (d), 131
      (f), and 315 and 49 CFR 1.48 (b).
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
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      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO