When used in these regulations the term:
(1) "Conventional road" shall mean a
noninterstate highway which is not an expressway or freeway.
(2) "Curb service" shall mean that food may
be ordered from a vehicle parked in a drive-in service stall and served to a
vehicle window by food service staff. At no time shall the vehicle driver or
any passenger be required to leave the vehicle to order or be served
food.
(3) "Department" shall mean
the Washington state department of transportation.
(4) "Expressway" shall mean a divided
arterial highway for through traffic with partial control of access and grade
separations at most major intersections.
(5) "Fee zone" means:
(a) Fee zone 1, freeways and expressways with
average daily trips greater than eighty thousand;
(b) Fee zone 2, freeways and expressways with
average daily trips less than eighty thousand;
(c) Fee zone 3, conventional
highways.
(6) "Freeway"
shall mean an expressway with full control of access, and grade separations
over the entire length of the numbered highway route.
(7) "Motorist information signs" shall mean
the same as specific service signs as set forth in the Manual on Uniform
Traffic Control Devices adopted by the department as chapter
468-95
WAC.
(8) "Motorist service
activity" shall mean a business furnishing gas, food, lodging, camping,
recreation, tourist-oriented, and twenty-four-hour pharmacy services.
(9) "Owner" shall mean a person who owns or
operates a motorist service activity and who has authority to enter into and be
bound by agreements relevant to matters covered by these regulations.
(10) "Qualified tourist-oriented business"
means any lawful cultural, historical, recreational, educational, or
entertaining activity or a unique or unusual commercial or nonprofit activity,
the major portion of whose income or visitors are derived during its normal
business season from motorists not residing in the immediate area of the
activity.
(11) "RV symbol" means a
logo, for a business or destination that accommodates recreational vehicles,
designed and attached to a business sign in accordance with WAC
468-70-060(4).
(12) "Supplemental directional panel" shall
mean a motorist information sign panel located on, opposite, or at the terminus
of an exit ramp bearing business sign for a qualified motorist service activity
and directional information.
(13)
"Tourist-oriented directional (TOD) sign" means a sign on a motorist
information sign panel on the state highway system to provide directional
information to a qualified tourist-oriented business, service, or
activity.
(14) "Trade name" shall
mean any brand name, trade mark, distinctive symbol or other similar device or
thing used to identify a particular motorist service.
(15) "Urban area" shall mean an area
including and adjacent to a municipality or other place of five thousand or
more population as shown by the latest available federal census.
