Alaska Administrative Code
Title 17 - Transportation and Public Facilities
Chapter 60 - Highway Signs for the Traveling Public
Article 7 - General Provisions
17 AAC 60.995 - Definitions

(1) "activity" means a tourist-oriented activity, specific service activity, or RCIA;

(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the department;

(3) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;

(4) "driveway or intersecting road" means the road that a motorist takes from a highway with a tourist sign to the activity associated with the sign;

(5) "highway rest stop or pullout" has the meaning given in 17 AAC 05.990;

(6) "location" means a 2,500 foot segment of highway right-of-way bisected by a driveway or intersecting road;

(7) "logo" means a square design used by a specific service activity to distinguish itself from similar specific service activities;

(8) "logo panel" means a highway sign and posts on which logos may be mounted;

(9) "logo sign" means a logo and a logo panel consisting of a sign on which logos for gas, food, lodging, and camping are mounted; a logo sign consists of a logo and a logo panel;

(10) "RCIA" means recreational and cultural interest area;

(11) "recreational and cultural interest area" or "RCIA" has the meaning given the term at 17 AAC 60.205;

(12) "sign contractor" means a person included in the list described in 17 AAC 60.910(b);

(13) "specific service activity" means a commercial activity that offers gas, food, lodging, or camping;

(14) "symbol" means a square icon that accurately conveys the nature of its associated service or activity but does not reflect the name or a logo for the service or activity;

(15) "TODS" means a tourist-oriented directional sign;

(16) "tourist-oriented activity" means a motorist service, tourist attraction, or business of significant interest to the traveling public; "tourist-oriented activity" does not include an RCIA;

(17) "tourist-oriented directional sign" or "TODS" means a sign erected in a highway right-of-way for the purpose of alerting the traveling public to a nearby tourist-oriented activity;

(18) "tourist sign" means a TODS, logo sign, RCIA sign, or traveler information kiosk;

(19) "trailblazing sign" means a sign that guides a motorist traveling from a sign regulated under this chapter to the activity or RCIA represented on the regulated sign;

(20) "traveler information kiosk" means an area in a highway rest stop or pullout with a structure housing traveler information about businesses, services, and activities in the local area;

(21) "urban portion of an organized borough" means a location characterized by one or more of the following: