California Code of Regulations › Title 21 - Public Works › Division 2 - Department of Transportation › Chapter 19 - Placement of Motorist Services Informational Signs near Highway Exits Along Interstate Route 5 › Article 2 - Definitions › Section 2106 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
All terms defined in this subchapter are applicable to
					 terms used in these regulations only. These terms have the following
					 meanings:
(a) Business Sign. A
				  separate sign affixed to a specific informational panel, a Supplemental
				  Directional Panel, or to a trailblazer bearing the name, brand name, trademark,
				  logo or distinctive symbol or any combination of these of a Qualified Motorist
				  Service Business.
(b) Department.
				  The California Department of Transportation and any of its district
				  offices.
(c) Double Exit
				  Interchange. Two off-ramps in the direction of travel from the traveled way
				  which provide access to the local street system on one side of the freeway and
				  by means of a loop road provide access to a grade separation structure to carry
				  traffic across the freeway.
(d)
				  Gore. The area immediately beyond the divergence of the traveled way with the
				  off-ramp, bounded by the edges of pavement of these roadways.
(e) Guide Sign. A general term, which
				  includes among other signs, motorist service signs, used to describe signs
				  which provide directional, route, recreational and roadside service
				  information.
(f) Logo. A single or
				  multicolored symbolic design unique to a product, a business or a service
				  facility; a national, regional or local commercially recognized pictorial
				  reference to a specific product, service or business used as a means of
				  identification of a business's products, services or business.
(g) Motorist services informational sign. A
				  general term which refers only to specific informational panels and
				  Supplemental Directional Panels.
(h) On-site sign. A sign located on the
				  business premises of a Qualified Motorist Service Business which states the
				  name of the business and/or advertises the service provided.
(i) Owner. The holder of fee title or a
				  leasehold estate in the real property upon which a Qualified Motorist Service
				  Business operates and who has authority to enter into and be bound by
				  agreements relevant to matters covered by these regulations.
(j) Qualified Motorist Service Business. A
				  business whose primary and principal source of revenue is from the sale of
				  goods, products, or services which fall within the motorist service categories
				  of "FUEL," "FOOD," "LODGING," and/or "CAMPING" and which in all other respects
				  qualifies for signing under these regulations. In case of a multi-business
				  facility, the business owner is obligated to prove to the Department that more
				  income is generated from one of the qualified businesses listed above than from
				  any of the unqualified businesses.
(k) Responsible Operator. A person or entity
				  other than an owner who has the authority to enter into and be bound by
				  agreements relevant to matters covered by these regulations.
(l) Rural Area. An area outside of an urban
				  area.
(m) Sign Arrangement.
				  Business signs shall be placed on specific informational panels generally
				  having two rows of business signs in order of increasing state measured
				  distance as follows: closes--upper left; second--lower left; third--upper
				  center; fourth--lower center; fifth--upper right; sixth--lower right. For a
				  single row, the business signs shall be placed on the panel in order of
				  increasing distance from left to right.
(n) Single Exit Interchange. An off-ramp in
				  the direction of travel from the traveled way which provides access to the
				  local street system on one side of the freeway and which may also provide,
				  without means of a loop road, access to a grade separation structure to carry
				  traffic across the freeway.
(o)
				  Specific Information Panel. An official panel placed by the Department within
				  the right-of-way in advance of freeway exits in the same manner as other
				  official signs, readable from the traveled way, with the words "FUEL," "FOOD,"
				  "LODGING," or "CAMPING" or appropriate combinations thereof, appropriate
				  directional information and with space for one or more individual business
				  signs which may be attached to the panel.
(p) State Measured Distance. The vehicular
				  distance from the gore of the off-ramp which provides the most direct access to
				  the qualified business and the nearest point of intersection of the traveled
				  way of a public road with the nearest driveway of the business premises of the
				  qualified business.
(q)
				  Supplemental Directional Panel. An official panel placed by the Department and
				  located on, opposite, or at the terminus of an off-ramp from the freeway,
				  readable from the off-ramp, with the words "FUEL," "FOOD," "LODGING," or
				  "CAMPING" or appropriate combinations thereof, appropriate directional arrows
				  and with space for one or more individual business signs and individual
				  distance information which may be attached to the panel.
(r) Trailblazer. A directional sign placed by
				  the Department outside the freeway right-of-way to further direct motorists to
				  a Qualified Motorist Service Business whose business sign is displayed on
				  either the specific information panel or the Supplemental Directional Panel, or
				  both.
(s) Traveled Way. The portion
				  of the roadway used for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of shoulders and
				  auxiliary lanes.
(t) Urban Area. A
				  geographic area encompassing a population of 5,000 or more as identified on
				  maps prepared by the department based upon census data developed by the federal
				  Bureau of the Census.
1. New
					 article 2 and section filed 5-18-93; operative 6-17-93 (Register 93, No.
					 21).
Note: Authority cited: Section
						101.7,
						Streets and Highways Code. Reference: Section
						101.7,
						Streets and Highways Code.