City of Madison - File #: 01954

• File #: 01954
• Version: 4
• Name: to prohibit hand-carried or permanent signs on bridges and overpasses
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 8/31/2005
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE
• On agenda: 11/29/2005
• Final action: 11/29/2005
• Enactment date: 12/20/2005
• Enactment #: ORD-05-00193
• Title: AMENDED SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Creating Section 31.04(6)(m), and amending other sections of Chapter 31, the Street Graphics Control Ordinance of the Madison General Ordinances to prohibit hand carried or permanent signs on bridges and overpasses that pass over controlled-access highways, freeways and expressways, and to clarify regulations regarding hand-carried portable signs.
• Sponsors: David J. Cieslewicz, Paul E. Skidmore

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/2/2005	4	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Approved As To Form
11/29/2005	4	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt With Amendment(s)	Pass
11/21/2005	3	Finance Dept/Approval Group	Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office
11/21/2005	3	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Substitute Created
11/18/2005	3	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Approved As To Form
11/18/2005	3	Attorney's Office	Fiscal Note Required / Approval
11/15/2005	2	PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
10/18/2005	1	PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL WITH THE FOLLOWING RECOMMENDATIONS - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
10/12/2005	2	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Approved As To Form
10/12/2005	2	Attorney's Office	Fiscal Note Required / Approval
10/12/2005	2	Finance Dept/Approval Group	Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office
10/12/2005	2	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Substitute Created
9/9/2005	1	Traffic Engineering Division	Return to Lead with the Recommendation for Approval
9/6/2005	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer
9/6/2005	1	PUBLIC SAFETY REVIEW COMMITTEE	Refer
8/31/2005	1	Attorney's Office/Approval Group	Approved As To Form
8/31/2005	1	Attorney's Office	Fiscal Note Required / Approval
8/31/2005	1	Finance Dept/Approval Group	Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office
8/31/2005	1	Attorney's Office	Referred for Introduction
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Fiscal Note
No significant fiscal effects are anticipated.
Title
AMENDED SECOND SUBSTITUTE - Creating Section 31.04(6)(m), and amending other sections of Chapter 31, the Street Graphics Control Ordinance of the Madison General Ordinances to prohibit hand carried or permanent signs on bridges and overpasses that pass over controlled-access highways, freeways and expressways, and to clarify regulations regarding hand-carried portable signs.
Body
DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This 2nd substitute ordinance would prohibit permanent and temporary (hand-carried) signs on bridges and overpasses that cross over a freeway or expressway or a controlled-access highway with a speed limit over 40 mph. (i.e. the Beltline.) The ordinance also establishes the City's findings that such an ordinance is needed to protect the safety of all users of the highway and rights-of-way. New Subsection 31.04(6)(m) would make it unlawful to display, erect, post, maintain, install, affix, or carry any street graphic (i.e. any sign) including hand-carried signs, on bridges and overpasses over such highways, but creates an exception for official traffic control devices which are regulated on the local, state, and federal levels and which, by definition under state law, may only be placed under the authority of the public body or official with jurisdiction over the highway. This ordinance also clarifies the existing prohibition against street graphics in the right-of-way under Sec. 31.04(6)(e), and clarifies the existing policy of allowing hand-carried signs on sidewalks and other pedestrian ways, without a permit, as long as other laws are being followed.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

Findings and Purpose: The Common Council finds that signs, other than official traffic control signs, displayed on bridges and overpasses that pass over limited-access and higher-spee...