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REFERENCE TITLE: political signs; public right-of-way |
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State of Arizona House of Representatives Forty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session 2010
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HB 2542 |
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Introduced by Representatives Gowan, Antenori, Seel, Young Wright, Senator Pearce R: Representatives Burges, Goodale, Heinz, Lesko, Mason, Montenegro, Pratt, Stevens, Weiers JP, Senator Melvin
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AN ACT
amending section 16-1019, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to campaign signs.
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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:
Section 1. Section 16-1019, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:
16-1019. Political signs; tampering; classification
A. It is a class 2 misdemeanor for any person to knowingly remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign of any candidate for public office for the period commencing forty‑five sixty days prior to before a primary election and ending seven fifteen days after the general election.
B. The provisions of This section shall does not apply to the removal, alteration, defacing or covering of a political sign by the candidate or the authorized agent of the candidate in support of whose election the sign was placed, or by the owner or authorized agent of the owner of private property on which such signs are placed with or without permission of the owner, or placed in violation of state law, or county, city or town ordinance or regulation.
C. Notwithstanding any other statute, ordinance or regulation, this state or any city, town or county shall not remove, alter, deface or cover any political sign if the following conditions are met:
1. The sign is placed in a public right-of-way that is owned or controlled by that jurisdiction.
2. The sign supports or opposes a candidate for public office or it supports or opposes a ballot measure.
D. The prohibition prescribed in subsection C applies only during the period commencing sixty days before a primary election and ending fifteen days after the general election, except that for a sign for a candidate in a primary election who does not advance to the general election, the period ends fifteen days after the primary election.
E. Subsection C does not apply to public rights‑of‑way for controlled access highways or overpasses over those highways.