THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY DRUCKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CONKLIN, DONATUCCI, GRUCELA, JOSEPHS, W. KELLER, KORTZ, MANN, MILLARD, MILNE, MUNDY, MURT, MYERS, PETRI, PHILLIPS, SANTONI, SIPTROTH AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 3, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 3, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 74 (Transportation) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in scenic highways, providing for the

designation of a portion of U.S. Route 202 in Chester County

and a portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike as a scenic byway.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Title 74 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:

§ 8307.  Designation of portions of U.S. 202 and the

Pennsylvania Turnpike as scenic byways.

(a)  General rule.--Because of their outstanding scenic,

historic, recreational, cultural and archeological

characteristics, the portion of U.S. Route 202 in eastern

Chester County from the West Chester bypass at Matlack Street to

Route 422, and the portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike from

Route 29 to the Valley Forge interchange are designated as

scenic byways.

(b)  Effect of designation.--No outdoor advertising device,

as defined in section 3 of the act of December 15, 1971 (P.L.

596, No.160), known as the Outdoor Advertising Control Act of

1971, may be erected if the sign is visible from the main-

traveled way of the scenic byway and the purpose of the sign is

that its message be read from the main-traveled way of the

scenic byway, except:

(1)  the official signs and notices which are required or

authorized by law and which conform to the national standards

promulgated by the United States Secretary of Transportation

pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 131 (relating to control of outdoor

advertising);

(2)  outdoor advertising devices advertising the sale or

lease of the real property upon which they are located;

(3)  outdoor advertising devices advertising activities

conducted on the property on which they are located,

including devices which display a message that may be changed

at reasonable intervals by electronic process or remote

control; and

(4)  directional signs, including, but not limited to,

signs pertaining to natural wonders, scenic and historical

attractions and other points of interest to the traveling

public which conform to the national standards promulgated by

the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to 23

U.S.C. § 131.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.