2010 Maryland Code
TRANSPORTATION
TITLE 8 - HIGHWAYS
Subtitle 7 - Regulation of Outdoor Advertising
Section 8-716 - Signs for which permit may not be issued.
§ 8-716. Signs for which permit may not be issued.
The Administration may not issue a permit under this part for any outdoor sign if:
(1) The area of its advertising surface, as required to be specified in the application, exceeds 1,000 square feet;
(2) It might affect adversely the safety of public travel on any State highway by dangerously obstructing the clear view of the highway by the driver of a motor vehicle on it;
(3) It is lighted in a way that makes it dangerous to drive a motor vehicle on a State highway; or
(4) It is located, as to any intersection at grade of a State highway with another highway or with a railroad:
(i) At any point where it obstructs or interferes with the view of a train or other vehicle approaching the intersection; or
(ii) At any other point where it is dangerous to the public in any way.
[An. Code 1957, art. 56, § 204; 1977, ch. 13, § 2; ch. 545.]
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