Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 70 - TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT › Part III - Outdoor Advertising › Chapter 1 - Outdoor Advertising › Subchapter C - Regulations for Control of Outdoor Advertising › Section III-143 - Procedure and Policy for Issuing Permits for Controlled Outdoor Advertising

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. Applications
				  shall be made by the person who is the contemplated owner of the subject sign
				  to be permitted.
B. Applicants for
				  a permit shall execute an application form furnished by the Louisiana
				  Department of Transportation and Development and shall forward such application
				  form properly and completely executed as to all information requested to the
				  district office of the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development
				  situated within the highway district where said sign is to be
				  located.
C. All permits for the
				  erection of outdoor advertising shall be conditioned upon compliance with state
				  law, and any action by or on behalf of the permit holder or sign owner contrary
				  to state law and regulations shall be grounds for voiding any subject permit
				  heretofore or hereafter is sued.
D.
				  The department shall void the permit for the sign wherein the violation took
				  place and the department shall not issue future permits within the district
				  where the violation occurred to the permit holder and/or sign owner and/or
				  landowner until the illegal sign is removed.
E
				  . The department must be notified in writing by the original
				  permittee upon any change or transfer of ownership of the permitted
				  installation. Such notification may be done by submittal of the sales
				  agreement.
F. An original signature
				  of the landowner or a copy of the current lease agreement shall be submitted
				  with each application.
G . Every
				  applicant who seeks to situate a controlled advertising structure in a
				  commercial or an industrial zone shall furnish evidence of the restrictive
				  zoning of the subject land on the department's zoning supplement form which
				  shall be completed by the appropriate state or local authority.
H. Permit applications which are properly
				  completed and executed and which are accompanied by all other required
				  documentation shall be thereafter submitted by the district office to the
				  appropriate permit office in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for review. Permits
				  applications which are not in proper form or which are not complete or not
				  accompanied by required documentation or do not meet the requirements of state
				  law at the time of the submittal of the application shall be returned to the
				  applicant by the district office with reasons for its return. Applications may
				  be resubmitted at any time.
I. The
				  appropriate permit-issuing officer designated by the department shall review
				  all permit applications. Thereafter, permits shall be issued or the application
				  rejected and returned to the applicant with reasons for denial of the
				  permit.
J. Copies of all permits
				  shall be transmitted to the district office of the district where the sign is
				  to be situated for subsequent surveillance by the district office.
K. Each permit shall specify a time delay of
				  12 months within which to erect the subject advertising device. The district
				  office shall determine whether or not the device has been erected within the
				  specified time delay.
L. If a sign
				  has not been erected within the delay provided by the subject permit, the
				  permit may be voided by the department and the applicant or permittee so
				  notified. On the day following the posting of notice to any such applicant or
				  permittee of the voiding of the permit to the last known address as furnished
				  by the applicant, the subject sign location shall be available to any other
				  applicant.
M. If a sign has been
				  erected within the delays allowed by the permit, but the subject sign does not
				  conform to the specifications of the permit, the Louisiana Department of
				  Transportation and Development shall notify the applicant or permittee in
				  writing to cause the sign to conform to the permit. The applicant or permittee
				  shall have 30 days to cause the sign to conform to the permit. The time delay
				  begins on the day following the posting of written notice to said applicant or
				  permittee at the last known address as furnished by the applicant or permittee.
				  Extensions of time within which the applicant or permittee may bring the sign
				  into legal conformity may be granted by the department when the department
				  determines that good cause has been demonstrated. The department will void any
				  permit when the permittee fails to conform the sign within the time delay or
				  extentions provided. Thereafter the sign must be removed at the sign owner's
				  expense. The sign owner may prevent such removal only by securing a new permit
				  for the subject sign, which did not conform to the previous permit. A new
				  permit may be obtained upon appropriate application including payment of all
				  fees in connection therewith. Nevertheless, once a permit has been voided the
				  sign location is available to any applicant.
N. If a sign is erected without first
				  obtaining a permit from the department and the department notifies the owner
				  that the sign is illegal, the owner of the sign will have a period of 30 days
				  from the date of receipt of the department's letter to bring the sign into
				  legal compliance and make proper application for the permit. Extensions of time
				  within which the applicant or permittee may bring the sign into conformity may
				  be granted by the department when the department determines that good cause has
				  been demonstrated.
O. When a
				  permitted outdoor advertising sign or device is knocked down or destroyed, or
				  modified, the sign or device cannot be reinstalled or rebuilt without first
				  obtaining a new outdoor advertising permit pursuant to the procedures
				  established in this part.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
					 Promulgated in accordance with
					 R.S.
					 48:461 et
					 seq.