Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 200 - Erection Of Signs On Public Highways And Disabled Parking Signs › Section Trans 200.015 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) The definitions of words and phrases in
			 chs. 84, 86, 340 and 990, Stats., except s.
			 990.01(12),
			 Stats., apply to this chapter unless a different definition is specifically
			 provided.
(2) In this chapter:
(a) "Business sign" means a separately
			 attached sign mounted on a specific information sign to show the brand, symbol,
			 trademark or name, or combination of these, for a motorist service available on
			 a crossroad at or near an interchange or an intersection. Each sign on an exit
			 ramp sign under s.
			 Trans
			 200.06(7) (a) 4. is a separate
			 business sign.
(b) "Conventional
			 highway" means a highway that is neither a freeway nor an expressway.
(f) "Double-exit interchange" means a highway
			 interchange facility with 2 exit ramps for traffic approaching the interchange
			 from the same direction with one exit ramp leading to one direction of travel
			 on the intersecting highway and the other exit ramp leading to the opposite
			 direction of travel on the intersecting highway.
(g) "Erect" means to construct, manufacture,
			 fabricate, build, raise, assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw,
			 or in any other way bring into being or establish a sign or sign structure, but
			 it does not include any of the foregoing activities when performed as customary
			 maintenance of the sign or sign structure.
(h) "Exit ramp sign" means a specific
			 information sign installed along the ramp or at the ramp terminal at
			 single-exit interchanges that corresponds to the specific information sign
			 along the main roadway, but which is reduced in size.
(i) "Federal-aid primary highway" means a
			 highway designated by the department and approved by the secretary of the
			 United States department of transportation under s.
			 84.105 or
			 84.29, Stats., and
			 23 USC
			 103(b) or
			 103(e).
(im) "Federal-aid secondary
			 highway" means a highway designated by the department and approved by the
			 secretary of the United States department of transportation under s.
			 84.01(15),
			 Stats., and
			 23 USC
			 103(c) that is under the
			 jurisdiction of the department.
(j)
			 "Guidance sign" means a sign permitted under s.
			 Trans
			 200.03.
(jm) "Install" has the same meaning as
			 "erect."
(k) "Maintain" means to
			 keep in a state of repair, efficiency, or validity; to preserve from failure or
			 decline; and to allow to exist.
(l)
			 "Motorist service" means a service that qualifies under s.
			 Trans
			 200.06(2).
(m) "Motorist service sign" means an official
			 traffic sign that includes one or more of the words "GAS," "FOOD," "LODGING,"
			 "CAMPING" or "ATTRACTION" and directional information, but does not identify
			 the business offering the service or the name of the brand of products offered.
(mg) "Region" means the
			 geographical area under the administration of a region office.
(mr) "Region office" means an office of the
			 division of transportation system development of the department of
			 transportation.
(n) "Specific
			 information sign" means a rectangular sign panel that displays:
1. One or more of the words, "GAS," "FOOD,"
			 "LODGING," "CAMPING" or "ATTRACTION";
2. Directional information; and
3. One or more business signs.
(o) "State trunk highway" means a
			 highway designated as part of the state trunk highway system as provided in s.
			 84.02,
			 Stats., including national parkways as provided in s.
			 84.105(5),
			 Stats., and interstate highways as provided in s.
			 84.29(2),
			 Stats.
(p) "Tourist-oriented
			 directional assembly" means a group of one to 4 tourist-oriented directional
			 signs attached to the same post.