New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION
Chapter 41C - ROADSIDE SIGN CONTROL AND OUTDOOR ADVERTISING
Subchapter 1 - PURPOSE, SCOPE, AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Section 16:41C-1.2 - Scope

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 16:41C-1.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

(a) Consistent with Federal law, the State Act, and the Agreement, as presently existing and hereafter amended, governing outdoor advertising, this chapter provides for the permitting of outdoor advertising signs along limited access and non-limited access highways. Additionally, this chapter provides for licensing of any person who engages in the business of outdoor advertising or who holds a permit for a sign that is intended to be used in the business of outdoor advertising, regardless of whether or not that sign is built.

(b) The following signs are allowed in accordance with this chapter and require the issuance and maintenance of a permit:

1. Off-premise signs (see N.J.A.C. 16:41C-8), including, but not limited to:
i. Directional signs;

ii. Service club signs and religious notices;

iii. School bus stop shelter signs;

iv. Signs on State property;

v. Transit bus shelter signs;

vi. Bike share station signs; and

vii. Off-premise signs on bridges or overhead structures.

(c) The following signs are allowed in accordance with this chapter, but do not require the issuance of a permit:

1. On-premise signs (see N.J.A.C. 16:41C-9) including, but not limited to:
i. Public identification signs;

ii. Public utility signs;

iii. On-premise signs on bridges or overhead structures;

iv. Establishment signs;

v. Service area signs;

vi. Sponsorship signs; and

vii. Time, date, and temperature signs, except when attached to off-premise signs;

2. Sale or lease signs;

3. Notices required by law to be posted or displayed;

4. Official signs and notices established pursuant to the MUTCD erected on a public highway by the public authority having jurisdiction on which the sign is located; and

5. Any sign erected or maintained by the Commissioner.

(d) No sign shall be erected or maintained that is visible from the main-traveled way of any portion of limited access or non-limited access highways except those allowed in (b) and (c) above.

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