Utah Admin. Code R918-7-3 - Definitions

(1) "Acknowledgement plaque" means a plaque that is:
(a) intended only to inform the traveling public that a person, firm, or entity is participating in the department's highway sponsorship program; and
(b) installed only in the same sign assembly below a primary sign that provides the road user specific information on accessing the service being sponsored.
(2) "Acknowledgement Sign" has the same meaning as defined in Section 72-6-402.
(3) "Advertisement" or "advertising sign" means a sign or other device that promotes commercial products or services through:
(a) slogans;
(b) information on where to obtain the products and services; or
(c) other means.
(4) "Department" and "UDOT" mean the Utah Department of Transportation.
(5) "Facility within a Rest Area" means an enclosed building, or freestanding bulletin board or partial enclosure within a rest area or welcome center, constructed by the department to provide specific information to the motorist as to services, places of interest within the state, and other such information as the department may consider desirable.
(6) "FHWA" means the Federal Highway Administration.
(7) "Legend" has the same meaning as in the MUTCD.
(8) "Main Traveled Way" means the portion of the roadway for the movement of vehicles, exclusive of the shoulders, ramps, berms, sidewalks, and parking lanes.
(9) "MUTCD" means the most recently adopted version of the Utah Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices as adopted by the department in accordance with Section 41-6a-301 and Rule R920-1.
(10) "Recipient agency" means an organization that directly receives the highway-related service, product, or monetary contribution from the sponsor entity. The recipient agency might be the department, or a contractor engaged by the department to administer the highway-related service and manage the sponsorship program.
(11) "Roadside facility" means a facility constructed to support the highway system.
(12) "RWIS" means a road weather information system that uses technology to collect, transmit, model, and disseminate weather and road condition information.
(13) "Sponsor" means a person, firm, or entity that provides a monetary contribution or highway-related service or product to a recipient agency in exchange for a logo display on an acknowledgement sign or plaque or some other recognition for providing the contribution, service or product to the recipient agency.
(14) "Sponsorship agreement" has the same meaning as defined in Section 72-6-402.
(15) "Sponsorship program" means a program that allows a person, a firm, or an entity to sponsor an element of the department's highway operation through the provision of highway-related services, products, or monetary contributions.
(16) "Visible" means the sign legend is capable of being seen by the viewer from the main traveled way

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Utah Admin. Code R918-7-3
Adopted by Utah State Bulletin Number 2015-6, effective 2/20/2015 Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2015-10, effective 4/23/2015 Amended by Utah State Bulletin Number 2025-03, effective 1/23/2025

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