Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 37 - Transportation and Highways › Part 1 - Mississippi Department of Transportation › Subpart 7601 - Traffic Engineering Division › Chapter 00800 - Specific Service Signs › Definitions › Section 37-1-7601-00800-201

Current through June 25, 2024
The following words as used in this Rule shall
						mean:
1. "Department" or "MDOT" means
					 Mississippi Department of Transportation.
2. "Executive Director" means the Chief
					 Executive Officer of MDOT or his designated representative.
3. "District" means any one of six
					 subdivisions of MDOT responsible for construction and maintenance activities in
					 a defined geographical area.
4.
					 "MDOT Program Administrator" means that person assigned by MDOT to oversee and
					 coordinate Contractor's or MDOT Personnel's activity.
5. "Logo Sign Program" is a simplified
					 expression for the Specific Service Sign Program as outlined in the current
Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
. It may also
					 be identified as the "Program".
6.
					 "Eligible Highways" means those sections of controlled access highways
					 determined by MDOT to be eligible for the Logo Sign Program.
7. "Eligible Interchange" or "Interchange"
					 means those interchanges or intersections within the eligible sections of
					 highways where the Logo Sign Program may be provided.
8. "Qualified Business" means those
					 facilities providing "GAS", "FOOD", "LODGING", "CAMPING", AND "ATTRACTION"
					 services that meet the eligibility criteria defined in this rule.
9. "Specific Service Sign" means a background
					 panel with border and copy upon which one (1) or more separate business signs
					 may be attached and are located adjacent to the mainline and exit ramps of the
					 eligible highway.
10. "Business
					 Sign" means a sign mounted on the Specific Service Sign showing the name,
					 symbol, trademark, or combination thereof for a type service available at an
					 interchange.
11. "Trailblazer"
					 means a business sign with appropriate directional arrows mounted along the
					 route leading from the interchange to the business for traffic direction
					 purposes.
12. "Site Plan" will be
					 the means of documenting the construction, maintenance, refurbishing, and sight
					 clearing to be performed by Contractor or MDOT Personnel on or for specific
					 service signs within highway right-of-way as well as the means of obtaining
					 approval of such work from the MDOT Program Administrator.
13. "As-Built Plans" are detailed plans
					 showing the configuration and location of specific service signs and
					 trailblazer signs after the initial construction is completed on an
					 interchange-by-interchange basis.
14. "Visible" means the location of the
					 business can be readily identified by traffic approaching the termini of the
					 highway exit ramp serving the business or approaching an intersection along the
					 route from the exit ramp to the business.
15. "Contractor" means that person, firm, or
					 organization selected by MDOT for the purpose of administering, marketing,
					 construction, refurbishing, and maintaining the existing and future Specific
					 Service Sign Program in Mississippi.
16. "Blanket Authority" will be the means by
					 which Contractor will obtain approval from the MDOT Program Administrator to
					 install, reposition, or remove business signs and to repair specific service
					 background panel signs.
17.
					 "Traffic Control Plan" will be the method and means of informing, directing,
					 and regulating traffic when various construction or maintenance activities are
					 being performed on highway right-of-way by Contractor, or MDOT
					 Personnel.
18. "MDOT District
					 Inspector" means that District person assigned the responsibility of assisting
					 the MDOT Program Administrator in administering the Logo Sign
					 Program.