New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 41E - SPECIFIC SERVICE SIGN (LOGO) PROGRAM › Subchapter 2 - DEFINITIONS › Section 16:41E-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
				  have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Amusement park" means a commercially operated enterprise
				  that offers rides, games, and other similar forms of entertainment. The term
				  includes theme parks and water parks.
"Arts and cultural site" means a place that, as its principal
				  use, displays historic, scientific, or artistic objects to the general public,
				  which studies and conserves those objects and is accredited by a national
				  organization that meets applicable national standards. These sites include, but
				  are not limited to: arboretums, aquariums, museums, sculpture gardens, and
				  zoos. Arts and cultural site also means a place that, as its principal use, is
				  the site of performance art, such as dance, music, opera, or theater and where
				  performances are offered for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public,
				  such as, but not limited to, concert halls, performing arts facilities, and
				  theatres.
"Attraction" means a particular type of facility or a
				  location that is of regional interest to the traveling public and that
				  provides, as a primary use, amusement, historical, cultural, or leisure
				  activities to the public including, but not limited to: amusement parks; arts
				  and cultural sites; historical sites; golf courses, ski slopes, equestrian
				  facilities; natural attractions and parks; stadiums or athletic arenas; and
				  breweries, distilleries, or wineries.
"Brewery" means a facility that currently is licensed by the
				  State of New Jersey as a limited brewery, and which offers tours to the public
				  and that sells beer, which it produces, to the public for on or off-premise
				  consumption.
"Camping facility" means an establishment that, as its
				  principal use, offers temporary outdoor sleeping accommodations for use by the
				  general public. Such a facility may accommodate the use of tents and
				  recreational vehicles, such as, but not limited to, campers or motor
				  homes.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey
				  Department of Transportation or such persons as the Commissioner may designate,
				  when legally permissible.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of
				  Transportation.
"Distillery" means a facility that is licensed by the State
				  of New Jersey as a craft distillery, which offers tours to the public and sells
				  distilled alcoholic beverages, which it produces, to the public for on or
				  off-premise consumption.
"Equestrian facility" means a facility created and maintained
				  for the primary purpose of accommodating the training, showing, or competition
				  of horses and which is open to the public.
"Food facility" means an establishment that, as its principal
				  use, offers meals and refreshments to the general public and has on-site
				  seating where these can be consumed.
"Gas or fuel facility" means an establishment that, as its
				  principal use, offers conventional fuels, such as gasoline, to the general
				  public for the refueling of vehicles. In addition, the establishment may also
				  offer alternative fuels, such as, but not limited to, diesel fuels, alternative
				  vehicle fuels, flex-fuels, and electric vehicle recharging facilities.
"Golf course" means a regulation-sized, minimum 18-hole
				  course consisting mostly of par-4 holes with a mix of par-3 and par-5 holes
				  that is open to the general public. It shall not mean a 9-hole course, an
				  executive course, a par-3 course, a driving range complex, or other such lesser
				  sized golf facilities.
"Highway" means any road, thoroughfare, street, boulevard,
				  lane, court, trailway, right-of-way, or easement used for, or laid out and
				  intended for, public passage of vehicles or people.
"Historic site" means any district, site, building,
				  structure, or object designated by the United States, the State of New Jersey,
				  the county, or the municipality where the property is located as being
				  significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or
				  culture.
"Interchange" means a system of interconnecting roadways that
				  provides for traffic movement between two or more highways that do not
				  intersect at grade.
"Interstate highway" means a highway constructed within this
				  State and approved by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States as
				  an official portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways
				  pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code.
"Limited access highway" means a highway, especially designed
				  for through traffic, over which abutting lot owners have no right to light,
				  air, or direct access, such as Interstate highways, parkways, and
				  freeways.
"Lodging facility" means an establishment which, as its
				  principal use, offers temporary sleeping accommodations for use by the general
				  public.
"Logo sign panel" means an individual sign panel that
				  conforms to the MUTCD, is affixed to a specific service sign, specific service
				  ramp sign, or trailblazer sign, and which identifies one particular facility by
				  the display of its symbol, trademark, or name.
"Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices" or "MUTCD" means
				  the manual periodically published and revised by the United States Department
				  of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, available from the
				  Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 732 North Capitol
				  Street, NW, Washington, DC 20401 or online at
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/
.
"Natural attraction or park" means a publicly or privately
				  owned place that is open to the general public and recognized for its natural
				  or naturalized scenic beauty or interest. Natural attractions and parks
				  include, but are not limited to, arboretums, caves, forests, gardens, lakes,
				  mountains, oceans, parks, and wildlife management areas.
"Off-premise sign" means any sign authorized by an outdoor
				  advertising permit pursuant to
N.J.A.C. 16:41C
.
"Re-fabrication and re-installation" means the work expended
				  to fabricate and install a new logo sign panel for a facility that has elected
				  to change the design of the panel. Re-fabrication and re-installation does not
				  mean the work expended to replace a panel that has been knocked down, damaged,
				  or is replaced as part of customary maintenance.
"Road" means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or
				  ordinarily used for vehicular travel and parking lanes, but exclusive of the
				  sidewalk, berm, or shoulder even though such sidewalk, berm, or shoulder is
				  used by persons riding bicycles or other human-powered vehicles.
"Roadway" means the portion of a highway, including
				  shoulders, for vehicular use. A divided highway has two or more roadways. In
				  the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term roadway as
				  used in this chapter shall refer to any such roadway separately, but not to all
				  such roadways collectively.
"Ski slope" means part of a hill or mountain improved,
				  designed, or primarily used for skiing, and which is open to the public.
"Specific service ramp sign" means a sign located along the
				  exit ramp that displays the logo sign panels of participating facilities
				  according to their service type, such as gas, food, lodging, camping, or
				  attraction, and which provides directional or distance information to those
				  facilities.
"Specific service sign" means a sign erected in conformance
				  with the MUTCD that identifies one or more of the following service types: gas,
				  food, lodging, camping, or attraction, and that displays logo sign panels of
				  eligible facilities that provide the identified type of service. Specific
				  service signs are placed along the main line of a highway.
"Stadiums or athletic arenas" means a place where athletic
				  events are held, such as, but not limited to, arenas, coliseums, equestrian
				  facilities, race tracks, and stadiums, whether public, private, or associated
				  with a college or university.
"Supplemental Guide Signing Manual" means a manual published,
				  as amended and supplemented, by the Department that provides the standards,
				  criteria, and limitations for the installation of supplemental guide signing
				  for traffic generators and motorist attractions along the highway system and
				  which can be found at
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/eng/documents/SGSM/
.
"TODS" means the Tourist Oriented Directional Signs Program
				  as authorized by
N.J.A.C. 16:41D
.
"Trailblazer sign" means a guide sign that is erected on a
				  crossroad leading away from the participating highway that identifies the
				  participating facility and provides directional information to it.
"Vendor" means a contractor procured by the Department to
				  implement the Logo Program, pursuant to
N.J.S.A.
				  27:7-21
.12.a and b.
"Winery" means a facility that is licensed by the State of
				  New Jersey as a farm winery or plenary winery, and which offers samples to
				  visitors and sells wines that it produces, to consumers on the winery
				  premises.
"Zone 1" means the following counties of the State: Bergen,
				  Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and
				  Warren.
"Zone 2" means the following counties of the State: Atlantic,
				  Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex,
				  Monmouth, Ocean, and Salem.