Delaware Administrative Code
Title 2 - Transportation
2000 - Department of Transportation
2600 - Division of Maintenance and Operations
2601 - Outdoor Advertising
Section 2601-12.0 - Standards for Public Service Signs

12.1.1 No public service sign shall be erected or maintained without first securing a permit from the Department as required by these regulations. Applications for permits shall be processed in accord with procedures promulgated by the Department. A certification by the Department of Education (DOE) that each shelter on which signs are or are to be erected is needed to provide shelter for students at that location shall accompany each application. Applications and approval shall be processed in accord with procedures promulgated by the Department.

12.1.2 Shelters shall bear an identifying tag indicating the name and contact information of the party responsible for the shelter and any signs affixed to it. Such identification tags shall be placed within the interior of the shelter and cannot exceed 2 square feet.

12.1.3 Shelters located within the right-of-way of any public highway shall not display any type of advertising sign except an identification tag as defined in subsection 12.1.2.

12.1.4 At such time a shelter is no longer deemed necessary by the DOE, or is no longer being occupied by students, any and all signs affixed to such shelter shall be removed immediately. This paragraph does not apply to identification tags as defined in subsection 12.1.2.

12.2.1 Signs which identify the donor, sponsor, or contributors of the shelter on which the sign is erected, and or

12.2.2 Which contain safety slogans or messages which shall occupy not less than 60 percent of the area of the sign and

12.2.3 Which contain no other message.

12.3.1 Public service sign shall not exceed 32 square feet in area.

12.4.1 Lighting of public service signs is prohibited.

12.5.1 Only two public service signs shall be permitted at any one location. Signs will only be approved for a shelter provided it does not in any way obscure or otherwise interfere with the effectiveness of an official TCD, or which obstructs or interferes with the driver's view of approaching, merging, or intersection traffic, or which interferes with the safe and free flow of traffic in any way.