1. (a) Customary maintenance includes the following activities:

   1. (1) Changing of the advertising message.
   2. (2) Adding an Extension to an outside dimension of a Display as incident to the copy for a temporary period up to three years.
   3. (3) The sale, lease, or transfer of the Display or its Permit.
   4. (4) Adding a Light Box.

2. (b) Customary does not include the following (all of which acts are considered as a “placing” of a new advertising Display):

   1. (1) Raising the height of the Display from ground level.
   2. (2) Relocating all or a portion of a Display.
   3. (3) Adding a back-up Facing to a single Facing Display.
   4. (4) Increasing any dimension of a Facing except as permitted by Section 2270(a)(2).
   5. (5) Turning the direction of a Facing.
   6. (6) Adding illumination or a Changeable message, including, but not limited to, “tri-vision” signs, with the exception of a light box.

“Customary maintenance” means any activity performed on a Display for the purpose of actively maintaining the Display in its existing approved physical configuration and size dimensions at the specific location approved on the application for State Outdoor Advertising Permit, or at the specific location officially recorded in the records of the Department for a legally placed Display, for the duration of its normal life.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 5250 and 5415, Business and Professions Code. Reference: Section 5415, Business and Professions Code.

History

1. New section filed 6-25-76; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 76, No. 26).

2. Amendment of Note filed 7-22-77 as procedural and organizational; effective upon filing (Register 77, No. 30).

3. Amendment filed 9-20-99; operative 10-20-99 (Register 99, No. 39).

4. Amendment of subsection (b)(6) filed 11-23-2004; operative 12-23-2004 (Register 2004, No. 48).