Illinois Administrative Code › Title 92 - TRANSPORTATION › Part 542 - BUSINESS LOGO SIGNING PROGRAM › Section 542.300 - Criteria for Specific Service Panels

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) Number and Order of Freeway Panels
1) Specific service panels and business logo
			 signs may be installed under the standards of Chapter 2J of the Manual on
			 Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highway, 2009 Edition,
			 available from the US Department of Transportation's Federal Highway
			 Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE, Washington DC 20590, (202)366-4000
			 or
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov
, no
			 later amendments or editions included. Specific service panels may be installed
			 for each of the five types of services (gas, food, lodging, camping, and
			 24-hour pharmacy). There will be a maximum of four service panels with a total
			 of 24 logo signs erected within the right-of-way of a freeway for each
			 direction of travel in advance of an interchange after receipt of the business
			 signs by the Department for each type of service. There will be a maximum of
			 two specific service panels and 12 business logo signs that display a specific
			 service type. Each service panel will provide space for a maximum of six logo
			 signs regardless of whether the service panel displays one or multiple service
			 types. A service panel may display up to three different service types but will
			 provide enough space for at least two logo signs for all service types
			 displayed. These maximum limits will also include any service panels and logo
			 signs installed for attractions (see 92 Ill. Adm. Code 543, Tourism Attraction
			 Signing Program).
2) Specific
			 service panels will not be erected in advance of any exit-only freeway
			 interchange where motorists cannot immediately reenter the freeway and continue
			 in the same direction of travel.
3)
			 Specific service panels shall be installed successively in the direction of
			 travel in the following order: 24-HOUR PHARMACY, CAMPING, LODGING, FOOD, and
			 GAS (i.e., the GAS panel shall be the last specific service panel viewed by
			 motorists before reaching the appropriate exit ramp).
4) Where sufficient distance is not available
			 between interchanges to install four specific service panels, only the number
			 of panels that can be properly spaced will be installed. Service panels may be
			 modified to include other service types (see subsection (a)(1)). To determine
			 those services that will be signed, priority will be given in the following
			 order from top to bottom:
GAS (Level 1 signs)
FOOD (Level 1 signs)
LODGING (Level 1 signs)
CAMPING (Level 1 signs)
ATTRACTIONS (Level 1 signs)
24-HOUR PHARMACY (Level 1 signs)
GAS (Level 2 signs)
FOOD (Level 2 signs)
LODGING (Level 2 signs)
CAMPING (Level 2 signs)
ATTRACTIONS (Level 2 signs)
24-HOUR PHARMACY (Level 2 signs)
Once a type of service has a specific service panel or second
				specific service panel erected at an interchange that continues to display at
				least one business logo sign, that panel or service type will not be removed
				because a business establishment from another higher priority service requests
				to participate.
5) All
			 specific service panels shall be ground-mounted.