Ohio Administrative Code › Title 5501:2 - Division of Highways › Chapter 5501:2-6 - Specific Service Sign Program › Section 5501:2-6-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) "Agreement"
			 means an agreement or contract between the program manager and each entity
			 participating in the "Tourist-Oriented Directional" sign program, the "Business
			 Logo" sign program, or the "Traffic Generator Sign" program.
(B) "Alternative fuel" means a vehicle fuel
			 other than gasoline or diesel, i.e., liquid
			 propane gas, compressed natural gas, electric or other fuel that may become
			 available in the future.
(C)
			 "Commercial activity" means a farm market, winery, a bed and breakfast, lodging
			 that is not a franchise or part of a national chain, antiques shop, craft
			 store, or gift store.
(D)
			 "Contracted Program manager" means a private person or business, selected by
			 the director to manage a sign program(s) for the department.
(E) "Convention center" means a building(s)
			 that hosts conventions, industrial shows, and the like.
(F) "Director" means the director of the Ohio
			 department of transportation or his designee.
(G) "Department" means the Ohio department of
			 transportation.
(H) "Expressway"
			 means a divided highway with partial control of access.
(I) "Fee" means the amount of money assessed
			 for participation in the program.
(J) "Freeway" means a divided highway with
			 full control of access.
(K)
			 "Immediate area" means within ten miles of the tourist-oriented
			 activity.
(L) "Interchange" means a
			 system of interconnecting roadways in conjunction with one or more grade
			 separations that provides for the movement of traffic between two or more
			 roadways or highways on different levels.
(M) "Interstate system" has the same meaning
			 as in section 5516.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(N) "Intersection" means the
			 intersection of a state or United States highway and any other dedicated public
			 highway as found in section
			 4511.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(O) "Legend message" means a
			 word providing the name of a business.
(P) "Logo sign panel" means a reflectorized
			 sign mounted on the specific service sign showing the trademark logo,
			 non-trademark logo, legend message or combination thereof for a motorist
			 service available on a crossroad at or near an interchange.
(Q) "Modern sanitary facilities" in addition
			 to the definition of a sanitary facility, may also include baby care and
			 related facilities and should be provided for persons with a disability, as
			 well as the elderly and people with babies or young children.
(R) "Motorist services" means gas, food,
			 lodging, camping or attraction services.
(S) "Non-trademark logo" means a business
			 logo that is not registered as a trademark with the appropriate U.S.
			 governmental agency.
(T) "Right -of
			 -way permit" means a permit issued by the director, or his designee, to the
			 program manager to occupy the highway right -of -way in or on the approaches to
			 an intersection.
(U) "Rural areas"
			 means any areas not meeting the definition of an urban area.
(V) "Sanitary facility" means a designated
			 area for use by the general public that includes a toilet and sink and may
			 include a urinal and/or shower.
(W)
			 "Shopping center" means a complex of retail establishments offering goods
			 and/or services for sale to the public.
(X) "Specific service sign" means a guide
			 sign that provides road users with business identification and directional
			 information for services and for eligible attractions.
(Y) "Tourist-oriented activity" means any
			 lawful cultural, historical, recreational, educational, or commercial activity
			 a major portion of whose income or visitors are derived during the normal
			 business season from motorists not residing in the immediate area of the
			 activity and attendance at which is no less than two thousand in any
			 consecutive twelve-month period.
(Z) "Tourist-oriented directional signs"
			 means signs advertising a tourist-oriented activity available within ten miles
			 and meeting the additional criteria within this chapter.
(AA) "Trademark logo" means a business logo
			 that is registered as a trademark with the appropriate U.S. governmental
			 agency.
(BB) "Traffic generator
			 sign" means a sign that directs the traveling public to a private or public
			 facility that generates a minimum volume of traffic on a routine basis as
			 determined by the department.
(CC)
			 "Trailblazing signs" means signs that are installed on the road leading away
			 from an intersection directing to any business/activity/attraction that is not
			 visible from this road.
(DD) "Urban
			 area" means an area having a population of fifty thousand or more according to
			 the most recent federal census and designated as such on federal aid urban area
			 maps prepared by the department.