New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 21 - TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAGE
Part 5 - OUTDOOR ADVERTISING REQUIREMENTS
Section 18.21.5.29 - CUSTOMARY MAINTENANCE OF SIGNS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. Customary maintenance shall be performed on all permitted signs. For the purpose of this section, a sign owner shall be allotted six (6) months to restore and replace copy, at which time the department may give a thirty (30) day notice to the owner to revitalize the sign or remove it as an abandoned sign. If the owner fails to revitalize the sign or remove it as an abandoned sign within thirty (30) days, the permit shall be revoked and the sign shall be deemed illegal and non-compensable and subject to removal by the department at the expense of the sign owner pursuant to the provisions of 18.21.5.33 NMAC.
B. No sign owner shall erect, maintain, dismantle or remove any outdoor advertising device from or in the right-of-way of any interstate system, NHS or primary system. Any sign owner violating this subsection shall have the sign permit revoked whether or not the sign is conforming and such action shall render the sign illegal and non-compensable and subject to removal by the department at the expense of the sign owner pursuant to the provisions of 18.21.5.33 NMAC.
