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SC Code § 57-25-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-200. Agreements with other authorities as to control of advertising in areas adjacent to interstate and primary highway systems.

 (A) Within the requirements of this article the commission may enter into agreements with other governmental authorities relating to the control of outdoor advertising in areas adjacent to the interstate and primary highway systems, including the establishment of information centers and safety rest areas and take action in the name of the State to comply with the terms of the agreements.  (B) If an agreement is not achieved, the Attorney General of this State promptly shall initiate proceedings under the provisions of Section 131(1) of Title 23 of the United States Code with respect to hearings, stay of penalties, and judicial review in order to resolve the disagreement by judicial determination. He also shall initiate the proceedings if there is a determination to withhold funds from this State for its alleged failure to comply with any provision of Section 131 in order to obtain a judicial determination of whether this article provides effective control of outdoor advertising in conformity with the section and, if not, the extent of modifications necessary to bring it into compliance.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-591.9; 1971 (57) 2061; 1990 Act No. 519, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1530.
SC Code § 57-25-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-210. Expenditures for removal dependent upon availability of federal funds and agreement with Secretary of Transportation.

 The commission is not required to expend funds for the removal of outdoor advertising under this article until federal funds are made available to the State for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article and the commission has entered into an agreement with the Secretary of Transportation as authorized by Section 57-25-200 and as provided by the Highway Beautification Act of 1965.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-591.10; 1971 (57) 2061; 1990 Act No. 519, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1530.
SC Code § 57-25-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-220. Rule of construction.

 Nothing in this article abrogates or affects the provisions of a lawful ordinance, regulation, or resolution which is more restrictive than the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-591.8; 1971 (57) 2061; 1990 Act No. 519, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1530.
SC Code § 57-25-410 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-410. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (a) "The highway" means that recently constructed portion, portion under construction or portion to be constructed, of State Highway No. 11, which has been designated as the Andrew Pickens Scenic Parkway.  (b) "Sign" or "outdoor advertising sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other thing which is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of the advertising or informative contents of which is visible from any place on the main-traveled way of the highway.  (c) "Unzoned commercial or industrial area" means the lands occupied by the regularly used buildings, parking lots, storage or processing areas of at least one distinct commercial or industrial activity, and those lands lying along the highway for a distance of seven hundred and fifty feet immediately adjacent to the outermost or end activity. All measurements shall be from the outer edges of the regularly used buildings, parking lots, storage or processing areas of the activities, not from the property line of the activities, and shall be measured parallel to the edge of the highway pavement. An unzoned area, as defined herein, shall not include land predominantly used for residential properties, and land zoned by the State or local law, regulations or ordinance.  (d) "Commercial or industrial activities" means those established activities generally recognized as commercial or industrial by zoning authorities within the area affected by this article, except that none of the following shall be considered commercial or industrial activities:  (1) Outdoor advertising structures.  (2) Agricultural, forestry, ranching, grazing, farming, wayside produce stands and related activities.  (3) Activities conducted in a building principally used as a residence.  (4) Railroad tracks and minor sidings.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595; 1969 (56) 187.
SC Code § 57-25-420 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-420. Information required on signs.

 On or before January 1, 1970 all advertising signs, displays, or devices, or the structures on which they are displayed, shall have stated thereon the name and address of the owner thereof and the month, day and year when the sign was erected, and the name and address of the owner of the property upon which such sign, display or device is located.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.8; 1969 (56) 187.
SC Code § 57-25-440 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-440. Permits for erection and maintenance of signs.

 The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to issue permits for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs coming within the exceptions contained in subsections (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(3) and (a)(4) of Section 57-25-430, consistent with the safety and welfare of the traveling public, and as may be necessary to carry out the policy declared in this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.2; 1969 (56) 187; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1532.
SC Code § 57-25-450 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-450. Erection and maintenance of illegal advertising device.

 Whoever erects or maintains an advertising device in violation of Section 57-25-430 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.6; 1969 (56) 187.
SC Code § 57-25-460 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-460. Advertising devices violating article declared public nuisances; removal; right of entry for purpose of removal.

 (1) Any advertising device which violates the provisions of this article is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the department shall give sixty days notice, by certified or registered mail, to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the property on which such device is located to remove the device. Provided, however, that any sign, display or device lawfully in existence along the highway on September 1, 1965 which is not in conformity with the provisions contained herein shall not be required to be removed until July 1, 1971, except that the Department of Transportation may jointly agree with the owner of any sign or the property owner for the earlier removal of such sign. Any other sign, display or device lawfully erected subsequent to September 1, 1965 and prior to May 6, 1969, which does not conform with the requirements of this article may not be required to be removed until the end of the fifth year after the erection thereof, or after it becomes nonconforming, except that the Department of Transportation may jointly agree with the owner of any sign, or the property owner, for the earlier removal of such sign.  (2) Employees or agents of the Department are hereby authorized to go upon the property upon which a prohibited or nonconforming device is located, after expiration of the sixty day period, for the purpose of removing the advertising device. The period of such notice shall be computed from the date of mailing. No notice, however, shall be required to be given to the owner of an advertising sign, display, or device whose name is not stated thereon or on the structure on which it is displayed as required in Section 57-25-420.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.4; 1969 (56) 187; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1533.
SC Code § 57-25-470 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-470. Compensation for removal of signs.

 (a) The Department of Highways and Public Transportation may acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and shall pay just compensation upon the removal of the following outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices:  (1) those lawfully in existence on October 22, 1965;  (2) those lawfully erected on or after May 6, 1969.  (b) Compensation may be paid only for the following:  (1) the taking from the owner of a sign, display, or device of all right, title, leasehold, and interest in the sign, display, or device; and  (2) the taking from the owner of the real property on which the sign, display, or device is located, of the right to erect and maintain signs, displays, and devices.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.5; 1969 (56) 187; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 42.
SC Code § 57-25-480 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-480. Information signs within right-of-way.

 The Department of Transportation may provide within the right-of-way for areas at appropriate distances on which signs, displays and devices giving specific information in the interest of the traveling public may be erected and maintained under standards and regulations hereby authorized to be adopted by the department. Such standards and regulations may provide for cooperative agreements between the Department of Transportation and private interests for the use and display of brand names for FOOD, LODGING and GAS information signs on the highway right-of-way.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.3; 1969 (56) 187; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1534.
SC Code § 57-25-490 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-490. Agencies shall cooperate with Department of Transportation.

 In order to carry out the provisions of this article and to make the highway a scenic highway, the State Forestry Commission, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism, and all other state agencies or governmental entities shall cooperate with the Department of Transportation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.9; 1969 (56) 187; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1535.
SC Code § 57-25-500 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-500. Rule of construction.

 Nothing in this article shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulations or resolution, which are more restrictive than the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.7; 1969 (56) 187.
SC Code § 57-25-610 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-610. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (a) "The Highway" means the John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway.  (b) "Sign" or "outdoor advertising sign" means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, poster, billboard, or other thing which is designed, intended or used to advertise or inform, any part of the advertising or informative contents of which is visible from any place on the main-traveled way of the highway.  (c) "Unzoned commercial or industrial area" means the lands occupied by the regularly used buildings, parking lots, storage or processing areas of at least one distinct commercial or industrial activity, and those lands lying along the highway for a distance of seven hundred and fifty feet immediately adjacent to the outermost or end activity. All measurements shall be from the outer edges of the regularly used buildings, parking lots, storage or processing areas of the activities, not from the property line of the activities, and shall be measured parallel to the edge of the highway pavement. An unzoned area, as defined herein, shall not include land predominantly used for residential properties, and land zoned by the State or local law, regulations or ordinance.  (d) "Commercial or industrial activities" means those established activities generally recognized as commercial or industrial by zoning authorities within the area affected by this article, except that none of the following shall be considered commercial or industrial activities:  (1) Outdoor advertising structures.  (2) Agricultural, forestry, ranching, grazing, farming, wayside produce stands and related activities.  (3) Activities conducted in a building principally used as a residence.  (4) Railroad tracks and minor sidings.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.22; 1969 (56) 362.
SC Code § 57-25-620 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-620. Portion of United States Highway No. 123 designated as John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway.

 That portion of United States Highway No. 123 between the corporate limits of the city of Easley and the town of Clemson is hereby designated as the John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.21; 1969 (56) 362.
SC Code § 57-25-630 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-630. Information required on signs.

 On or before January 1, 1970 all advertising signs, displays, or devices, or the structures on which they are displayed, shall have stated thereon the name and address of the owner thereof and the month, day and year when the sign was erected, and the name and address of the owner of the property upon which such sign, display or device is located.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.30; 1969 (56) 362.
SC Code § 57-25-650 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-650. Permits for erection and maintenance of signs.

 The Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to issue permits for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs coming within the exception contained in subsections (a) (1), (a) (2), (a) (3) and (a) (4) of Section 57-25-640, consistent with the safety and welfare of the traveling public, and as may be necessary to carry out the policy declared in this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.24; 1969 (56) 362; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1537.
SC Code § 57-25-660 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-660. Erection and maintenance of illegal advertising device.

 Whoever erects or maintains an advertising device in violation of Section 57-25-640 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.28; 1969 (56) 362.
SC Code § 57-25-670 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-670. Advertising devices violating article declared public nuisances; removal; right of entry for purpose of removal.

 (1) Any advertising device which violates the provisions of this article is hereby declared to be a public nuisance and the department shall give sixty days' notice, by certified or registered mail, to the owner of the advertising device and to the owner of the property on which such device is located to remove the device. Provided, however, that any sign, display, or device lawfully in existence along the highway on September 1, 1965, which is not in conformity with the provisions contained herein, shall not be required to be removed until July 1, 1971, except that the Department of Transportation may jointly agree with the owner of any sign or the property owner for the earlier removal of such sign. Any other sign, display, or device lawfully erected subsequent to September 1, 1965, and prior to June 11, 1969, which does not conform with the requirements of this article may not be required to be removed until the end of the fifth year after the erection thereof, or after it becomes nonconforming, except that the Department of Transportation may jointly agree with the owner of any sign, or the property owner, for the earlier removal of such sign.  (2) Employees or agents of the Department are hereby authorized to go upon the property upon which a prohibited or nonconforming device is located, after expiration of the sixty-day period, for the purpose of removing the advertising device. The period of such notice shall be computed from the date of mailing. No notice, however, shall be required to be given to the owner of an advertising sign, display, or device whose name is not stated thereon or on the structure on which it is displayed as required in Section 57-25-630.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.26; 1969 (56) 362; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1538.
SC Code § 57-25-680 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-680. Compensation for removal of signs.

 (a) The Department of Highways and Public Transportation may acquire by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and shall pay just compensation upon the removal of the following outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices:  (1) those lawfully in existence on October 22, 1965;  (2) those lawfully erected on or after June 11, 1969.  (b) Compensation may be paid only for the following:  (1) the taking from the owner of the sign, display, or device of all right, title, leasehold, and interest in the sign, display, or device; and  (2) the taking from the owner of the real property on which the sign, display, or device is located, of the right to erect and maintain signs, displays, and devices.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.27; 1969 (56) 362; 1987 Act No. 173 Section 43.
SC Code § 57-25-690 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-690. Information signs within right-of-way.

 The Department of Transportation may provide within the right-of-way for areas at appropriate distances on which signs, displays and devices giving specific information in the interest of the traveling public may be erected and maintained under standards and regulations hereby authorized to be adopted by the Department of Transportation. Such standards and regulations may provide for cooperative agreements between the Department of Transportation and private interests for the use and display of brand names for FOOD, LODGING and GAS information signs on the highway right-of-way.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.25; 1969 (56) 362; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1539.
SC Code § 57-25-700 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-700. Markers; agencies shall cooperate with Department of Transportation.

 In order to carry out the provisions of this article and to make the highway a scenic highway, the Department of Transportation shall provide for appropriate markers designating the highway as the John C. Calhoun Memorial Highway, and the State Forestry Commission, the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and all other state agencies or governmental entities shall cooperate with the Department of Transportation.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.31; 1969 (56) 362; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1540.
SC Code § 57-25-710 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-710. Rule of construction.

 Nothing in this article shall be construed to abrogate or affect the provisions of any lawful ordinance, regulations or resolution, which are more restrictive than the provisions of this article.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 33-595.29; 1969 (56) 362.
SC Code § 57-25-800 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-800. Definitions.

 As used in this article:  (1) "Agritourism-oriented facility" means a type of location where an agritourism activity, as defined in Section 46-53-10(1), is carried out by an agritourism professional, as defined in Section 46-53-10(2), or another type of agricultural facility recommended by the Department of Agriculture and incorporated into regulations of the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 57-25-830(A).  (2) "Tourism-oriented facility" means a type of facility recommended by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and incorporated into regulations of the Department of Transportation pursuant to Section 57-25-830(A).  (3) "Conventional highway" means a highway with at-grade intersections and without control of access.  (4) "Rural" means an area outside the limits of an incorporated municipality having a population of five thousand or more according to the most recent decennial census of the United States Bureau of Census.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 224, Section 1, eff June 18, 2012.
SC Code § 57-25-810 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 57 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries|Chapter 25 - Outdoor Advertising|Section 57-25-810. Creation of program to provide directional signs leading to tourism and agritourism facilities; regulations.

 In an effort to promote and assist South Carolina facilities that have an interest in educating, sharing, and selling their programs and products to the general public, the Department of Transportation is directed to create and supervise a coordinated, self-funded, statewide program related to providing directional signs along certain of the state's rural conventional highways and noninterstate scenic byways leading to agritourism and tourism-oriented facilities. The statewide program shall be operated according to standards and regulations consistent with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices authorized to be adopted and promulgated by the Department of Transportation. The standards and regulations may provide for the use of official logos developed by the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism and the Department of Agriculture in compliance with the federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. The standards and regulations also may provide for cooperative agreements between the department and private interests for the administration of the program and for the use and display of names for tourism and agritourism information signs on the highway right of way.  HISTORY: 2012 Act No. 224, Section 1, eff June 18, 2012.  Editor's Note  2012 Act No. 224, Section 2, provides as follows:  "The Department of Agriculture and the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism must develop logos to be utilized for the signage authorized by this act. The logos developed may be used by those departments for other promotional purposes associated with tourism and agritourism."