New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 16 - TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 41C - ROADSIDE SIGN CONTROL AND OUTDOOR ADVERTISING › Subchapter 4 - RESTRICTIONS › Section 16:41C-4.1 - General restrictions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Signs which
				contain, include or are illuminated by any flashing, intermittent, scrolling or
				moving light or lights shall be prohibited, except those giving time, date
				and/or temperature.
(b) A permit
				for a new or enlarged sign shall not be issued if such permit would conflict
				with public policy relating to roadside signs or outdoor advertising as
				declared by the Congress of the United States, or as reflected in the statutory
				enactments and judicial decisions of this State. In determining whether such
				public policy is contravened, the Department shall consider the law of this
				State, and the United States, including the Federal law, the State Act, and
				this chapter.
(c) Except where
				specifically authorized by the Department, no sign shall be erected or
				maintained within the Department's right-of-way of any portion of limited
				access or non-limited access highways within the State of New Jersey. This
				prohibition shall not apply to signs, public notices, or markers erected or
				maintained by the Department.
(d)
				No sign shall interfere with the ability of the operator of a motor vehicle to
				have a clear and unobstructed view of streets or highways ahead, approaching,
				merging, or intersecting traffic, or official signs, signals, or traffic
				control devices.
(e) No sign shall
				interfere with or contain advertisements that resemble any official traffic
				sign, signal, or device.
(f) No
				sign shall be painted, drawn, erected, or maintained upon trees, rocks, other
				natural features, or public utility poles.
(g) No sign shall be of such a type, size, or
				character or placed at a location that will endanger or injure public safety or
				health, or pose a physical threat to property in the vicinity
				thereof.
(h) No sign shall
				advertise activities that are prohibited by Federal law, or the laws of the
				State of New Jersey.
(i) No
				off-premise sign, nor any on-premise sign which is visible to any interstate or
				limited access highway, shall display any animation or moving part or have
				reflectorized materials, except as provided at N.J.A.C. 16:41C-11. This
				provision shall not apply to time, date, and temperature signs. The components
				of signs used to change the advertisement in a multiple message sign, which are
				regulated at N.J.A.C. 16:41C-11, shall not be considered a moving
				part.
(j) No sign shall be of such
				intensity or brilliance to cause glare, or be otherwise operated in a manner
				that impairs the safe operation of a motor vehicle. Illumination of signs shall
				be shielded, so as to prevent light from being directed at any portion of the
				main-traveled way of any highway. All such lighting shall also be subject to
				any other provision relating to lighting of signs applicable to highways under
				the jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey.
(k) Except as provided at
				N.J.A.C.
				16:41C-8.8 and 9.4, signs shall not be
				painted on or attached to bridges, overpasses, or overhead
				structures.
(l) No sign shall be
				erected or maintained in a manner that may impair the vision of a
				motorist.