2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 177 - STATE AND FEDERAL HIGHWAYS -- LIMITED ACCESS FACILITIES -- TURNPIKES -- ROAD BONDS -- BILLBOARDS -- RECYCLERS 177.073 Official signs and notices as to scenic and historical attractions.
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177.073 Official signs and notices as to scenic and historical attractions.
The Department of Highways shall erect within six hundred and sixty (660) feet of
the right-of-way of any interstate, limited access highway, federal-aid primary
highway, or turnpikes official directional signs and notices pertaining to publicly and
privately owned natural wonders and scenic and historical attractions, including
cultural, scientific, educational, and religious sites, and areas of natural scenic
beauty or naturally suited for outdoor recreation deemed to be in the interest of the
traveling public under the following conditions:
(1) Such signs shall not violate any federal law, rule, or regulation, nor exceed any
standards of size, lighting, spacing, and message content as may be
promulgated from time to time by the secretary of the United States
Department of Transportation under subsection (c) of Section 131 of Title 23 of
the United States Code affecting the allocation of federal funds to the
Commonwealth of Kentucky.
(2) Such signs and notices shall not violate any safety standards set forth in KRS
177.830 to 177.890 nor any regulation promulgated by the commissioner of
highways pursuant to KRS 177.860.
(3) The message content on such signs and notices shall be limited to the
identification by name of the attraction or activity and directional information
useful to the traveler in locating the attraction, such as mileage, route numbers,
or exit numbers. Descriptive words or phrases, and pictorial or photographic
representations of the activity or its environs are prohibited.
(4) The commissioner of highways shall promulgate by regulations specific
selection methods and criteria to be used in determining those sites and
attractions, publicly and privately owned, for which directional signs and notices
may be erected as permitted by subsection (c) of Section 131 of Title 23,
United States Code. A statement as to selection methods, criteria, and
standards of size, lighting, and spacing shall be furnished to the secretary of
the United States Department of Transportation before the Department of
Highways erects any such directional signs and notices. The commissioner
shall consider and determine, upon proper application to the Department of
Highways, those sites and attractions eligible for official directional signs and
notices.
(5) The Department of Highways shall require reimbursement for the cost of
erection and maintenance of official directional signs and notices authorized by
this section when such sites or attractions are privately owned and shall
prescribe the size, number, and locations of such signs and notices based
upon its determination of the traveler's need for information.
(6) The commissioner of highways shall promulgate such reasonable rules and
regulations necessary to carry on the provisions of this section.
History: Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 317, sec. 1.
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