Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A.
Directional signs prohibited. The following signs are prohibited:
(1) signs advertising activities that are
illegal under federal or state laws in effect at the location of those signs or
at the location of those activities;
(2) signs located in such a manner as to
obscure or otherwise interfere with the effectiveness of an official traffic
sign, signal, or device, or obstruct or interfere with the driver's view of
approaching, merging or intersection traffic;
(3) signs which are erected or maintained
upon trees or painted or drawn upon rocks or other natural features;
(4) obsolete signs;
(5) signs which are structurally unsafe or in
disrepair;
(6) signs which move or
have any animated or moving parts; and
(7) signs located in safety rest areas,
parklands or scenic areas.
B. Size requirement of directional signs. No
sign shall exceed the following limits:
(1)
maximum area - one hundred fifty (150) square feet;
(2) maximum height - twenty (20) feet;
and
(3) maximum length - twenty
(20) feet.
C.
Dimensions. All dimensions include border and trim, but exclude
supports.
D. Lighting of
directional signs. Signs may be illuminated, subject to the following:
(1) signs, which contain, include, or are
illuminated by any flashing, intermittent or moving light or lights are
prohibited;
(2) signs which are not
effectively shielded so as to prevent beams or rays of light from being
directed by any portion of the traveled way of an interstate system, NHS or
primary system or which are of such intensity or brilliance as to cause glare
or to impair the vision of the driver of any motor vehicle, or which otherwise
interfere with any driver's operation of a motor vehicle are prohibited;
and
(3) no sign may be so
illuminated as to interfere with the effectiveness of or obscure an official
traffic sign, device or signal.
E. Spacing of directional signs.
(1) Each location of a directional sign must
be approved by the department.
(2)
No directional sign may be located within two thousand (2,000) feet of an
interchange or intersection at grade along the interstate system or other
freeways (measured along the interstate system or freeway from the nearest
point of the beginning or ending of pavement widening at the exit from or
entrance to the main-traveled way).
(3) No directional sign may be located within
two thousand (2,000) feet of the safety rest area, parkland or scenic
area.
(4) No two directional signs
facing the same direction of travel shall be spaced less than one (1) mile
apart.
(5) Not more than three
directional signs pertaining to the same activity and facing the same direction
of travel may be erected along a single route approaching the
activity.
(6) Signs located
adjacent to the interstate system shall be within seventy-five (75) air miles
of the activity.
(7) Signs located
adjacent to the primary system shall be within fifty (50) air miles of the
activity.
F. Permitted
content of directional signs. The content of directional signs shall be limited
to the identification of the attraction or activity and directional information
useful to the traveler in locating the attraction, such as mileage, route
numbers or exit numbers. Descriptive words or phrases, and pictorial or
photograph representations of the activity or its environs are
prohibited.
