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Current through June, 2024
The following regulations in the interest of public safety have
				been adopted by the Transportation Board to govern the display of official
				business directional signs licensed by the Travel Information Council.
Roadside Signs
1)
			 Design - The design of an official business directional sign shall not conflict
			 with the standards set forth in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
			 prepared by the National Joint Committee on Traffic Control Devices and
			 approved by the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads for Federal-Aid
			 highways.
2) Text Dimensions - The
			 letter heights and widths shall be such that a single sign, or all the signs
			 comprising a sign assembly, may be read by a motorist without having to reduce
			 the speed of his vehicle below the safe operating speed of the highway, or on
			 highways having a legal minimum speed, without having to reduce the speed below
			 such minimum.
3) Sign Assemblies -
			 An assembly of more than one official business directional sign mounted on the
			 same support shall not exceed four separate signs.
4) Sign Supports - The posts used for
			 mounting official business directional signs shall conform with the
			 Department's standards for breakaway and yielding type posts.
5) Locations
The following minimum measurements shall apply to the locations
				of single Official Business Directional Signs or Official Business Directional
				Sign assemblies. For measurement purposes, an intersection is defined as that
				point in center line of a public highway where center line of another public
				highway intersects or joins center line of such highway at an angle, whether
				such highway crosses or not.
a) Six
			 feet outside the highway shoulder to the near edge of the sign, but not less
			 than eight feet from the edge of the pavement. Two feet from the face of curbs
			 and curbed areas to the near edge of the sign. Official Business Directional
			 Signs must face the flow of traffic nearest it, except for the Official Travel
			 Information Council Approach Signs for the Travel Information Plazas.
b) Two hundred feet approaching and two
			 hundred feet beyond a traffic control sign or device in the direction of the
			 flow of traffic.
c)
1. Seven hundred and fifty feet approaching
			 and two hundred feet beyond the intersection of two or more federal or state
			 numbered routes or signalized intersections in the direction of the flow of
			 traffic.
2. Two hundred feet
			 approaching and two hundred feet beyond other public highway intersections in
			 the direction of the flow of traffic which intersects on a federal or state
			 numbered route.
d) One
			 hundred feet approaching and one hundred feet beyond other public highway
			 intersections in the direction of the flow of traffic.
e) Seven hundred and fifty feet approaching
			 and two hundred feet beyond a railroad grade crossing in the direction of the
			 flow of traffic.
f) Two hundred
			 feet approaching another business direction sign or assembly or two hundred
			 feet beyond another business direction sign or assembly in the direction of the
			 flow of traffic.
g) The location of
			 an existing traffic control device, or the need for a new device, shall take
			 precedence over the location of a business direction sign either existing or
			 proposed.
h) Limited Access
			 Highways
1. A sign shall not be erected on
			 the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways including, but not
			 limited to, its ramps.
2. A sign
			 will not be erected on any four lane divided highway including, but not limited
			 to, its ramps, with the exception of the Official Travel Information Council
			 Approach Signs for the Travel Information Plazas.
3. A sign will not be erected on any other
			 limited access facilities without the expressed written approval of the
			 Commissioner of Highways or his authorized representative, with the exception
			 of the Official Travel Information Council Approach Signs for the Travel
			 Information Plazas.