Illinois Administrative Code
Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION
Part 543 - TOURISM ATTRACTION SIGNING PROGRAM
Section 543.300 - Criteria for Tourism Attraction Panels
Universal Citation: 92 IL Admin Code ยง 543.300
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 12, March 22, 2024
a) Number and Order of Freeway Panels
1) Tourism attraction panels and tourism
attraction signs may be installed under the standards of Chapter 2J of the
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways, 2009
Edition, available from the US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington DC 20590, (202)366-4000
or http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov no
later amendments or editions included. A tourism attraction panel will be
erected within the right-of-way of a freeway for each direction of travel in
advance of an interchange after receipt of the tourism attraction signs by the
Department. If additional requests are received for tourism attraction signs
and the tourism attraction panel is full, a second tourism attraction panel may
be installed. Space for a second tourism attraction panel will be subject to
the installation and priority of service types, as prescribed under 92 Ill.
Adm. Code 542, Business Logo Signing Program. When considering a second tourism
attraction panel, the Department will take into consideration the number of
other services available at the interchange, the interest expressed by those
qualified businesses, and the anticipated future development of the area. There
will only be a maximum of two tourism attraction panels installed for each
direction in advance of an interchange. The maximum number of signs displayed
on a tourism attraction panel, whether separate or combined with a business
logo panel, will be as required in Section
543.600(a)(2).
2) Tourism attraction panels will not be
erected in advance of any exit-only freeway interchange where motorists cannot
easily reenter the freeway and continue in the same direction of
travel.
3) Tourism attraction
panels will not be erected in advance of any freeway interchange where there
are four business logo panels in place except where they can be combined as
allowed in Section
543.600(a)(2).
4) Signing for a qualifying tourism
attraction will only be allowed at a given interchange where the attraction can
be reached without crossing another freeway.
5) All tourism attraction panels will be
ground-mounted.
b) Location of Freeway Panels
1) Each tourism
attraction panel along the freeway will be installed at least 800 feet from
other signs and/or the beginning of an exit ramp taper. Each tourism attraction
panel along the freeway will also be installed at least 500 feet from the
preceding entrance ramp stub.
2)
Tourism attraction panels will not be erected in advance of exit ramps to a
previous interchange.
c) Exit Ramp Panels at Single-Exit Interchanges
1) The Department will install exit ramp
panels along exit ramps at single-exit interchanges in accordance with
subsection (c)(2) of this Section.
2) A tourism attraction that is displayed on
a freeway panel shall also be required to be displayed on the exit ramp panel
at a single-exit interchange. Only tourism attractions having signs displayed
on freeway panels will have signs displayed on exit ramp panels.
3) The Department will install a supplemental
distance sign below the tourism attraction sign for any tourism attraction over
one mile from the exit ramp at single-exit interchanges in Cook, DuPage and
Lake Counties, and over two miles in other counties. Whenever the Department
installs a supplemental distance sign on an exit ramp panel, it will also
install a supplemental distance sign below the tourism attraction sign of any
other tourism attraction that is 1/2 mile or more from the ramp. The
supplemental sign will indicate the distance to the tourism attraction in
half-mile increments for distances up to two miles and in one-mile increments
for distances over two miles.
d) Exit Ramp Panels at Double-Exit Interchanges
Any tourism attraction that has its logo displayed on a freeway panel will not be required to display its logo on an exit ramp panel at a double-exit interchange. Any tourism attraction that has its logo displayed on a freeway panel at a double-exit interchange that is reconstructed to a single-exit interchange shall be required to have its logo displayed on ramp panels in accordance with subsection (c).
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