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AR Code § 27-73-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-203. Penalty

 (a) Any person violating the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. That person shall, upon conviction, be fined in an amount of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than ninety (90) days, or be both so fined and imprisoned.  (b) Each day on which there is a violation shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punished accordingly.
AR Code § 27-73-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-204. Prohibition

 It shall be unlawful for any person to locate within two hundred feet (200') of the rights-of-way of any public highway, road, or street in this state any advertising sign or device which involves movement of light beams or colored lights such as rotating beams of light, flashing or oscillating colored lights, and those which involve glaring or blinding impact upon the viewer, and which in any way infringe upon the vision of motor vehicle operators traveling upon or otherwise in use of the public highways, roads, and streets of this state, in a manner as to demand, detract, or otherwise divert or confuse the attention of motor vehicle operators.
AR Code § 27-73-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-205. Exemptions

 (a) Official devices located at airports, designated parking areas, transportation mode interchange points, depots, and similar public service facilities shall be exempt from the provisions of this subchapter.  (b) The provisions of this subchapter shall neither apply to any oscillating, rotating, or flashing railroad signal or safety light at any railroad crossing or upon any railroad right-of-way nor to the oscillating headlights on any railroad locomotive.  (c) The prohibition set out in § 27-73-204 does not apply to signs or devices with constant illumination and color, including those in which the only movement is a very slow, steady rotation of the entire body of the sign or advertising device.
AR Code § 27-73-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-206. Zoning statutes subordinate

 This subchapter shall take precedence over any land use zoning statutes concerning devices regulated by this subchapter within the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 27-73-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 3 - Notice of Smoke Obstructing Highway|§ 27-73-301. Flaggers or signs required — Notice to sheriff

 (a)  (1) Any person owning or controlling croplands, rangelands, grasslands, pastures, or stubble lands along any Arkansas state primary or secondary highways or along a federal or interstate highway in Arkansas and setting fire to those lands so as to cause smoke to obstruct those adjacent roads and highways shall post flaggers or shall post advisory signs along those roads and highways to warn the drivers of all motor vehicles of the obstructing smoke. The flaggers shall be stationed in plain view along the roads and highways which are obstructed by the smoke and shall carry a flag, flare, flashlight, or other warning device to warn motorists of the danger of the obstructing smoke.  (2) The advisory signs shall be posted along both sides of the highway in plain view and shall state “SMOKE AHEAD” to warn motorists of the danger of obstructing smoke.    (b) Further, any person owning or controlling croplands, rangelands, grasslands, pastures, or stubble lands along any Arkansas state primary or secondary highways or along a federal or interstate highway in Arkansas and setting fire to those lands shall notify the sheriff's office of the county where the lands are located that a fire is to be set, the approximate time the fire is to be started, and the location of those lands to be burned.
AR Code § 27-73-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 3 - Notice of Smoke Obstructing Highway|§ 27-73-302. Action for damages

 In any cause of action for damages resulting from any obstructing smoke along a state or federal highway against any person who owns or controls lands which are burned, a person's compliance or noncompliance with this subchapter shall be admissible in the proceeding.
AR Code § 27-74-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-74-101. Title

 This chapter may be called the “Arkansas Highway Beautification Act”.
AR Code § 27-74-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-74-102. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Information center” means an area or site established, operated, and maintained at a safety rest area for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State of Arkansas and providing such other information as the State Highway Commission may deem desirable;  (2) “Interstate system” or “interstate” means that portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways located within this state, as officially designated or as may hereafter be designated by the commission and approved by the United States Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code;  (3) “Motorist services directional sign” means a sign giving directional information about goods and services in the interest of the traveling public, including, but not limited to:  (A) Places of public lodging;  (B) Places where food is served to the public on a regular basis;  (C) Places where automotive fuel or emergency automotive repair services, including truck stops, are regularly available to the public;  (D) Educational institutions;  (E) Places of religious worship;  (F) Public or private recreation areas, including campgrounds, resorts, and attractions, natural wonders, wildlife and waterfowl refuges, and nature trails;  (G) Plays, concerts, and fairs;  (H) Antique shops; and  (I) Agricultural products in a natural state, including vegetables and fruit;    (4) “Outdoor advertising” means any outdoor sign, display, device, figures, 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 informational contents of which is visible from any place on the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary highways;  (5) “Primary system” or “primary” means that portion of the federal-aid primary system located within this state, as officially designated or as may hereafter be designated by the commission and approved by the United States Secretary of Transportation, pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code;  (6) “Safety rest area” means an area or site established, operated, and maintained within or adjacent to the right-of-way by or under public supervision or control, for the convenience of the traveling public; and  (7) “Scenic byway” means a highway, or a portion of a highway, that has been designated a scenic byway by the commission in accordance with federal laws, regulations, and rules pertaining to scenic byways.
AR Code § 27-74-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-201. Policy

 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas adjacent to certain sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and federal-aid primary and other state highways designated by the State Highway Commission in the Arkansas state highway system shall be controlled in accordance with the terms of this chapter and rules promulgated pursuant thereto, in order to protect the public interest; to promote the public health, safety, and welfare; to preserve natural beauty; and to promote reasonable, orderly, and effective display of outdoor advertising in the State of Arkansas.  (b) The State of Arkansas finds and declares that the removal of certain directional signs, displays, and devices in certain specified areas lawfully erected under state law in force at the time of their erection which do not conform to the requirements of 23 U.S.C. § 131(c), which provide directional information about goods and services in the interest of the traveling public, and which were in existence on May 6, 1976, would work a substantial economic hardship in the defined areas.
AR Code § 27-74-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-202. Nonconforming devices — Remedies

 (a) The General Assembly finds and declares that outdoor advertising signs, displays, or devices which do not conform to the requirements of this subchapter, including those for which there was a failure to first secure permits for the erection of the signs, are nonconforming advertising devices.  (b) Therefore, the right is conferred upon the State Highway Commission to enforce the provisions of this subchapter by means of restraining order, mandatory injunction, or other appropriate remedy for the abatement of such nonconforming advertising devices.
AR Code § 27-74-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-203. Regulation

 (a) The erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas six hundred sixty feet (660') in width from the nearest edge of any right-of-way of any interstate, primary, or other state highway designated by the State Highway Commission shall be regulated in order to protect the public investment in these highways, to promote the public safety and welfare in the use of these highways, to encourage the recreational value of public travel, and to preserve the natural beauty along these highways.  (b) Therefore, no outdoor sign, display, or device shall be erected in these areas except as hereinafter provided and in accordance with rules promulgated by the commission.  (c) Any person whose business or property has been injured by a final adverse decision from the commission shall be entitled to a judicial hearing de novo in the circuit court of any county in which the person resides or does business or in the Pulaski County Circuit Court if the interests affected by the decision of the commission are constitutionally or statutorily preserved, or preserved by private agreement, so that their enforcement is a matter of right.
AR Code § 27-74-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-204. Permitted advertising

 (a) With the exception of and excluding those highways, or portions of highways, which are designated by the State Highway Commission as scenic byways, nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices consistent with customary use within six hundred sixty feet (660') of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of interstate, primary, and other state highways designated by the commission:  (1) Within those areas which are zoned industrial or commercial under authority of the laws of this state; or  (2) Within those unzoned commercial or industrial areas which may be determined by agreement between the commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation.    (b) Neither shall these prohibitions apply to signs, displays, and devices:  (1) Advertising the sale or lease of property upon which they are located;  (2) Advertising activities conducted on the property upon which they are located;  (3) Which locate, identify, mark, or warn of the presence of pipelines, utility lines, or rail lines, and appurtenances thereto, including, but not limited to, markers used in maintenance, operation, observation, and safety; and  (4) Granted an exemption by the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 131(o).    (c) The erection of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices along a scenic byway shall be limited to those permitted by 23 U.S.C. § 131(c).
AR Code § 27-74-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-205. Removal — Deadline

 Any sign, display, or device lawfully erected which does not conform to this subchapter shall be required to be removed by the end of the fifth year after it becomes nonconforming under the provisions hereof.
AR Code § 27-74-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-206. Removal — Directional sign exemption

 (a) The State Highway Commission, upon receipt of a declaration, resolution, certified copy of an ordinance, or other clear direction from a community, board of county commissioners, municipality, county, city, a specific region or area of the state, or other governmental or quasi-governmental agency that removal of motorist services directional signs would cause an economic hardship in a defined area shall forward this declaration, resolution, or finding to the United States Secretary of Transportation for inclusion as a defined hardship area qualifying for exemption pursuant to 23 U.S.C. § 131(o).  (b) Any declaration or resolution submitted to the commission shall further find that the motorist services signs provide directional information about goods and services in the interest of the traveling public and shall request the retention in the specified areas by the state of directional motorist services signs as defined herein.  (c) The commission shall comply with all regulations issued both now and hereafter by the Federal Highway Administration necessary for application for the exemption provided in 23 U.S.C. § 131(o), provided that the motorist services directional signs were lawfully erected under state law at the time of their erection and were in existence on or prior to May 5, 1976.
AR Code § 27-74-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-207. Removal — Notice to owner

 (a) The State Highway Commission shall give thirty (30) days' notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the land on which an advertising device is located to remove it if it is a prohibited device or cause it to conform to rules if it is an authorized device.  (b) If the owner of the property fails to act within thirty (30) days as required in the notice, the commission shall remove the advertising device at the expense of the owner of the land.
AR Code § 27-74-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-208. Removal — Authority generally — Compensation

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to require the removal of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices not in conformity with this subchapter, which right may be enforced by means of a mandatory injunction or other appropriate remedy.  (b) However, just compensation shall be paid upon the removal of the following outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices:  (1) Those lawfully in existence on June 29, 1967;  (2) Those lawfully on any highway in this state made a part of the state highway system on or after October 22, 1965, and before June 29, 1967; and  (3) Those lawfully erected on or after June 29, 1967.    (c) Compensation shall be paid for the taking from the owner of any sign, display, or device, of all right, title, leasehold, and interest in any sign, display, or device, and 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 any signs, displays, and devices thereon.  (d) No municipality, county, or other political subdivision shall remove or cause to be removed any legal outdoor advertising except outdoor advertising that encroaches upon the right-of-way, without paying just compensation therefor.  (e) This section shall have no effect on the ability of municipalities, counties, or other political subdivisions to regulate or control outdoor advertising on highways or arterials which are not part of the interstate or federal-aid primary systems.
AR Code § 27-74-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-209. Agreements with the United States

 As provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, the State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreement, which agreement shall reflect customary use in the outdoor advertising industry as determined under § 27-74-211, with the United States Secretary of Transportation to control the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas adjacent to those sections of the federal-aid interstate and federal-aid primary highway systems lying in Arkansas and to take action in the name of the state to comply with any agreement.
AR Code § 27-74-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-210. Land predominantly used for residential purposes

 (a) It is the legislative intent and purpose of this section to specifically define a certain term used in the agreement entered into between the State Highway Commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter, as amended, particularly the term “land predominantly used for residential purposes” as that term is used in enumerating exclusions in the definition of “unzoned commercial, business, or industrial areas,” in order to clarify the terms of agreement and to enable the commission to more effectively and efficiently and uniformly administer the provisions of this chapter, as implemented by the agreement entered into between the commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation.  (b) As used in the agreement entered into between the commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, “land predominantly used for residential purposes” means only those tracts of land within an unzoned commercial, business, or industrial area on a primary or interstate highway which are occupied by a building regularly and principally used as a residence and those tracts of land adjacent to those residential tracts which are under the same ownership as the residential tracts and which are actively used and maintained for residential purposes.
AR Code § 27-74-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-211. Rules — Adoption and promulgation

 (a) After survey to determine existing outdoor advertising structures in this state and after public hearing, the State Highway Commission shall determine customary use in the display of outdoor advertising in this state with regard to size, lighting, and spacing in areas zoned commercial or industrial and in unzoned areas used for commercial or industrial purposes.  (b) The definition of an unzoned commercial or industrial area shall be determined by agreement between the commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation but shall be no more restrictive than that required by Title 23 of the United States Code. The commission shall then adopt and promulgate rules governing the issuance of permits for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising coming within the purview of this chapter, consistent with the safety and welfare of the traveling public, and as may be necessary to carry out the policy of the state declared in this chapter consistent with customary usage, the purposes of this chapter, and in agreement with the United States Secretary of Transportation.  (c) In the event that federal statutes, rules, or regulations conflict with the provisions of §§ 27-74-210 — 27-74-212 or rules promulgated thereunder, the commission is authorized to promulgate rules necessary to comply with federal law after first obtaining the advice of the Legislative Council thereon while pursuing, insofar as possible, the legitimate objectives of those sections.
AR Code § 27-74-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-212. Time limit for action on application for permit

 (a) It is the intent and purpose of this section to require the State Highway Commission to act on each application for a permit for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising coming within the purview of this chapter within sixty (60) days after such application is filed with the commission to assure the prompt disposition of such applications and to avoid the unnecessary hardship and expense to applicants which could result from unreasonable delay in taking action on the applications.  (b) When an application is filed with the commission or the Arkansas Department of Transportation under § 27-74-211 or rules adopted pursuant thereto for a permit to erect or maintain outdoor advertising, the commission or the department shall either grant or deny such permit within sixty (60) days from the date on which the application was filed with the commission or the department.
AR Code § 27-74-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 74 - Highway Beautification|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Advertising — Signs, Etc. — In General|§ 27-74-213. Rest areas

 In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain maps and to permit informational directories and advertising pamphlets to be made available at safety rest areas along the interstate, primary, and other state highways designated by the commission and to establish information centers in cooperation with the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism at safety rest areas for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the state and providing other information as may be considered desirable.