Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 7 - MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Division 10 - Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission › Chapter 6 - Outdoor Advertising › Section 7 CSR 10-6.060 - Nonconforming Signs

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment removes unnecessary
				  restrictive language.
(1)
				Definitions (see
				7 CSR 10-6.015
				).
(2) Categories of Nonconforming
				Signs. Unless these signs are unlawful signs under section
				226.580,
				RSMo , the following nonconforming signs, subsections (2)(A)-(D) of this rule,
				may be maintained under the specified conditions to promote highway safety:
(A) Signs Located Within Commercial or
				Industrial Areas. Any signs within six hundred sixty feet (660') of the nearest
				edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main-traveled way of any highway
				which is a part of the interstate or primary system which were lawfully erected
				and which are located within zoned or unzoned commercial or industrial areas
				but which under state statutes enacted at a later date or because of changed
				conditions fail to meet the sizing, lighting, spacing or location requirements
				of sections 226.500-226.600, RSMo or
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				CSR 10-6.020 are nonconforming signs. These signs may
				be maintained subject to the criteria for maintenance of nonconforming signs,
				in section (3);
(B) Signs Located
				Outside Commercial or Industrial Areas. Any signs within six hundred sixty feet
				(660') of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the
				main-traveled way of any highway which is a part of the interstate or primary
				system which were lawfully erected and which are not located in zoned or
				unzoned commercial or industrial areas but which under state statutes enacted
				at a later date or because of changed conditions fail to meet the sizing,
				lighting, spacing or location requirements of sections 226.500-226.600, RSMo or
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				CSR 10-6.020 are nonconforming signs. These signs may
				be maintained subject to the criteria for maintenance of nonconforming signs
				listed in section (3), only until removed by the commission upon the payment of
				just compensation under section
				226.570,
				RSMo; except, those signs qualifying as specific tourist area signs or as
				landmark signs may be maintained subject to the criteria for maintenance of
				non-conforming signs, in section (3);
(C) Signs Located Beyond Six Hundred Sixty
				Feet (660') of the Right-of-Way. Any signs lawfully erected, either outside of
				urban areas prior to August 13, 1976, or inside urban areas at any time which
				are located beyond six hundred sixty feet (660') of the right-of-way, visible
				from the main-traveled way of the interstate or primary system and erected with
				the purpose of its message being read from the traveled way, except that
				outdoor advertising as is defined in sections
				226.520(1) and
				(2), RSMo, but which under state statutes
				enacted at a later date or which because of changed conditions fail to meet the
				location requirements of sections 226.500- 226.600, RSMo or
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				CSR 10-6.020 are non-conforming signs. These signs may
				be maintained subject to the criteria for maintenance of nonconforming signs,
				listed in section (3), only until removed by the commission upon the payment of
				just compensation under section
				226.570,
				RSMo; except those signs qualifying as landmark signs may be maintained subject
				to the criteria for maintenance of non-conforming signs, in section
				(3);
(D) Landmark Signs. Any signs
				lawfully erected on or before October 22, 1965, including signs on farm
				structures or natural surfaces regardless of their advertising message at the
				date of erection, which are determined by the commission with the approval of
				the United States Secretary of Transportation to have been of historical or
				artistic significance on August 13, 1976, but which under state statutes
				enacted after these signs were erected or because of changed conditions fail to
				meet the sizing, spacing, lighting, or location requirements of sections
				226.500-226.600, RSMo, or
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				CSR 10-6.020 are nonconforming signs. Landmark signs
				may be located either within six hundred sixty feet (660') of the nearest edge
				of the right-of-way and visible from the main-traveled way of any highway which
				is a part of the interstate or primary system or beyond six hundred sixty feet
				(660') of the right-of-way, visible from the main-traveled way of the
				interstate or primary system and erected with the purpose of its message being
				read from the traveled way. These landmark signs may be maintained subject to
				the criteria for maintenance of nonconforming signs in section (3).