Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 13a - Highways and Bridges › 124a - Specific Information Signs and Business Signs on Limited Access Highways › Section 13a-124a-5 - Financial responsibility

Current through July 10, 2024
Businesses participating in the Connecticut Specific
				Information Signing Program will assume financial responsibility as outlined in
				the following:
(a) Installation and
			 maintenance of the specific information signs on the main line and ramp, by an
			 approved contractor, shall be the financial responsibility of the initial
			 business approved for a particular service at the given interchange. The
			 initial business shall submit to the Department, paid receipts for labor and
			 materials costs incurred as a result of the installation of the specific
			 information sign. Subsequent businesses will be required to reimburse the
			 initial business a percentage of the installation cost incurred by the initial
			 business. The dollar amount will be determined by the Department assuming a
			 full complement of businesses (six for gas, four for others) and a depreciation
			 scale based on a twelve year life of sign. Fractions of a year will not be
			 considered. Cost of removal and/or replacement of the specific information sign
			 for reasons other than those stated elsewhere in these regulations will be
			 shared in accordance with the previously established percentages when the work
			 is performed. If the first business does not require a ramp sign, the
			 subsequent business requiring ramp signing will be responsible for the cost of
			 erection and maintenance of ramp signing. Reimbursement for the cost of the
			 ramp sign will be computed in the same manner as the main line sign. If a
			 business is one turn off a crossroad and a sign for the turn is required by the
			 Department that business will be responsible for the cost of the installation
			 and maintenance of that sign. Any adjustment necessary to existing highway
			 signing shall also be the financial responsibility of the business causing the
			 specific information sign to be installed without reimbursement. No work shall
			 be performed within the highway right-of-way without an encroachment permit
			 issued from the Commissioner.
(b)
			 All reimbursements must be completed prior to the issuing of a
			 permit.
(c) All specific
			 information signs shall become the property of the State upon acceptance of the
			 installation.
(d) A business
			 approved for participation in the specific information signing program that
			 shall replace an existing participant must assume the responsibilities of the
			 business it is replacing and reimburse that business in the amount equal to
			 that portion of the value of the sign at the time the business is
			 removed.
(e) If the initial
			 business is to be removed, the applicant must also agree to assume the initial
			 business' responsibility of maintenance and bond.
(f) Each business displaying a business sign
			 will retain ownership of the business sign and be responsible for maintenance,
			 removal and replacement of its business sign.
(g) If the initial business responsible for
			 the maintenance and bond of the specific information sign withdraws or is
			 removed from the program for reasons other than a new applicant, the remaining
			 businesses on the sign will be notified. If one of the businesses accepts the
			 responsibilities of the sign, a new permit bond and information sign
			 maintenance concurrence will be required.
(h) If no business accepts responsibility
			 within 60 days of notification the Department will remove the specific
			 information sign and will return the business signs to the appropriate
			 businesses.
(i) For all specific
			 information signs erected after October 1, 1998 and all business signs
			 installed on said sign, reimbursement will be as follows: the initial business
			 and subsequent businesses approved in accordance with sections
			 13a-124a-1 to
			 13a-124a-7,
			 inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, shall be
			 reimbursed, by subsequent businesses on the same sign, the cost associated with
			 said sign divided by the number of businesses on said sign. Reimbursement made
			 by subsequent businesses shall be divided equally between the number of
			 businesses on said sign prior to the approval of the subsequent business. For
			 specific information signs erected prior to October 1, 1998 and business signs
			 erected on said signs reimbursement shall be in accordance with subsection (a)
			 of this section.
(j) In
			 circumstances where a fifth applicant applies and is approved to participate in
			 the program, and requires a revision to an existing specific information sign
			 to accommodate six businesses, an engineering evaluation will be conducted by
			 the department to determine the extent of the signing revision. The fifth
			 applicant will be financially responsible for the revision of the specific
			 informtaion sign by an approved contractor and assume initial business
			 responsibility for maintenance and bond for said sign. If the existing specific
			 information sign is less than ten years of age, the fifth applicant will be
			 responsible for all costs of the sign revision. If the specific information
			 sign is greater than ten years of age, the costs of the sign revision will be
			 divided equally among the businesses to be displayed on the said sign. In
			 instances where the fifth applicant is responsible for all costs of the sign
			 revision, an approved sixth applicant will reimburse the fifth applicant one
			 half the cost of the sign revision prior to such sixth applicants's installing
			 its business logo. All businesses on said sign will be responsible for costs
			 associated with providing appropriately sized business logos for display on the
			 revised specific information sign at the time of revision.