Second Regular Session
              Sixty-fourth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                INTRODUCED 
                                                           
  
 LLS NO. 04-0090.01 Julie Hoerner        HOUSE BILL 04-1033
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 McFadyen,  Merrifield, and Welker
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Chlouber,  and May R.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Transportation & Energy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning information signs on interstate highways within
            specified populated areas.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Transportation Legislation Review Committee.  Allows the
       department of transportation to erect, maintain, and administer
       information signs within a populated  area other than a federally defined
       "transportation management area".
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  43-1-420, Colorado Revised Statutes, is amended
       BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SUBSECTION to read:
            43-1-420.  Specific information signs and tourist-oriented
       directional signs authorized.  (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.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01
       a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after
       final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting
       a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution (August 4, 2004, if adjournment sine die is on May 5, 2004);
       except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item,
       section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section,
       or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.