Virginia Administrative Code › Title 24 - TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 551 - INTEGRATED DIRECTIONAL SIGNING PROGRAM (IDSP) PARTICIPATION CRITERIA › Section 24VAC30-551-60 - Specific Travel Services (Logo) Signing Program and Tourist-Oriented Directional Signing (TODS) Program bumping policy

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A. "Bumping" or the removal of a business
				from the Virginia Logo or TODS Program for another business of the same service
				is only allowed within the services of gas, food, or lodging.
B. Bumping shall be governed by the following
				conditions:
1. A Category I business located
				within one mile of the interchange or intersection as measured for inclusion in
				the Logo Program cannot be bumped from the program and will remain in the
				program as long as it continues to remain fully qualified, provides the
				necessary service to the motorist, and satisfies the contracted financial
				obligation to the program.
2. A
				Category I business located outside of one mile of the interchange or
				intersection as measured for inclusion in the Logo Program can be bumped from
				the program at the conclusion of its contract period if a request is made by
				another business of the same service that satisfies all of the Category I
				requirements for the service and is located more than 1/2 mile closer to the
				interchange or intersection as measured for inclusion in the Logo
				Program.
3. A business meeting only
				the Category II criteria can be removed from the program if a request for
				participation is made by another businesses that satisfies all of the Category
				I requirements for the service. The Category II business will be allowed to
				satisfy the Category I requirements before being removed from the program if
				the participating business is located closer to the interchange or intersection
				or is situated such that the business would not be removed from the program if
				the business met the Category I qualifications.
4. A Category II business located within one
				mile of the intersection as measured for inclusion in the Virginia Logo or TODS
				Program cannot be bumped from the program by another Category II business
				provided it continues to satisfy the Category II requirements for the service,
				provides the necessary service to the motorist, and satisfies the contracted
				financial obligation to the program.
5. A Category II business located outside of
				one mile of the intersection as measured for inclusion in the Virginia Logo or
				TODS Program can be bumped from the program at the conclusion of its contract
				period if a request is made by another business of the same service that
				satisfies all of the Category II requirements for the service and is located
				more than 1/2 mile closer to the interchange or intersection as measured for
				inclusion in the Virginia Logo or TODS Program.
6. Gas Category I. Two spaces will be
				reserved for facilities open 24 hours per day, seven days per week and that
				meet the remaining gas Category I requirements. Other gas participants may use
				these spaces if there are not sufficient 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-per-week
				operations to fill the spaces. A 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-per-week
				operation can bump any operation that is not 24 hours per day, seven days per
				week unless there are already two participants with 24-hours-per-day,
				seven-days-per-week operations. Participants with 24-hours-per-day,
				seven-days-per-week operations that use the two reserved spaces are required to
				identify in their logos that they are open 24 hours per day, seven days per
				week.