New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS › Chapter 21 - TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAGE › Part 3 - REQUIREMENTS FOR SIGNS ON GAS, FOOD, LODGING, CAMPING AND ATTRACTION, TRAVELER INFORMATION SIGNS › Section 18.21.3.18 - ERECTION AND MAINTENANCE

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
				Erect and maintain informational signs: The department or when applicable the
				program manager shall furnish, erect and maintain traveler informational panels
				at locations specified by the department or when applicable the program
				manager, or it may agree or contract with any city, county, or other
				governmental agency of this state, or with an independent contractor, to erect
				and maintain such panels at specified locations. In the event the department
				chooses to use an independent contractor for program management, the department
				may allow the contractor to fully administer the program, including marketing,
				issuing permits and collecting fees as well as providing, erecting
				informational panels, installing business signs and maintaining all logo
				informational sign panels. Compensation to the contractor may consist of the
				fees generated by the program. All existing sign panels as well as all sign
				panels provided and installed by the contractor will remain the property of the
				department and the state of New Mexico.
B. Erect and maintain business signs: The
				department or when applicable the program manager shall perform all required
				installation, maintenance, and removal and replacement of all business signs
				upon specific information panels within the right-of-way or as stated in
				Subsection A of 18.21.3.18 NMAC.
C.
				Business sign damage and new signs: The department or when applicable the
				program manager shall not be responsible for damages to business signs caused
				by acts of vandalism or natural causes requiring repair or replacement of
				business signs. Permittees in such event shall provide a new or renovated
				business sign together with payment of the appropriate service charge to the
				department or when applicable the program manager to replace such damaged
				business signs. A service fee for each mainline and/or each ramp supplement
				and/or each trailblazer business sign shall be assessed in accordance with the
				current, approved LOGO fee schedule.
D. Business sign approval actions: Promptly
				upon the approval of applications for business signs to be affixed to traveler
				informational panels, the department or when applicable the program manager
				shall notify the party with which it has contracted, so that the panels may be
				erected. The department or when applicable the program manager shall furnish
				the party with which it has contracted with all necessary information in order
				to permit the department or when applicable the program manager to erect the
				panels.
E. Furnishing business
				signs: The department or when applicable the program manager shall notify
				businesses to which applications have been approved sufficiently in advance of
				the date the panels will be erected, or business signs will be affixed to them,
				to permit such businesses to furnish the necessary number and detail of their
				business signs to allow when applicable the program manager to fabricate and
				install the business signs. If the department or when applicable the program
				manager is notified that a motorist service business has failed to timely
				furnish detailed information of its business signs, or that the signs furnished
				are not in compliance with these requirements and, if the department or when
				applicable the program manager finds that the permittee has not shown due
				diligence, it may cancel the permit and forfeit the permit fee.