105 IAC 7-4-17 - Sign spacing criteria
Authority: IC 8-23-2-6; IC 8-23-20-25
Affected: IC 8-23-20
Sec. 17.
(a) All
signs erected after October 4, 1971, in adjacent areas must conform to the
following criteria:
(1) On the interstate
system and limited access facilities on the control routes:
(A) no sign shall be located within five
hundred (500) feet of another sign on the same side of the highway;
and
(B) outside incorporated
municipalities, no sign shall be located within five hundred (500) feet of the
nearest edge of an interchange, intersection at grade, or rest area, with the
five hundred (500) feet to be measured along the interstate system or other
limited access control route from the closer of the beginning or ending of
pavement widening at the exit from or entrance to the main-traveled
way.
(2) On control
routes other than those in subdivision (1):
(A) outside of incorporated municipalities,
no sign shall be located within three hundred (300) feet of another sign on the
same side of the highway; and
(B)
inside incorporated municipalities, no sign shall be located within one hundred
(100) feet of another sign on the same side of the highway.
(b) Subsection (a)(2)
shall not apply to signs separated by a building or other obstruction in such a
manner that only one (1) sign is visible from any point on the control route at
any one (1) time.
(c) Directional
and other official signs and notices and other signs defined in IC
8-23-20-25(c)
shall not be counted, nor shall measurements
be made from them, for purposes of determining compliance with spacing
requirements in this rule.
(d) The
minimum distance between signs shall be measured along the nearest edge of the
pavement between points directly opposite the signs along each side of the
highway.
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