1190 ARTICLE 89B.

Road Signs.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 66.

66. Any person defacing, injuring or destroying any sign or finger
board erected or maintained under the preceding section shall be subject,
upon conviction, before any justice of the peace or by the Circuit Court for
any of the counties, to a fine of not more than fifty dollars for each offense,
or confinement in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than
thirty days, or both fine and imprisonment.
See sec. 30.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 67.

67. Any person or corporation who in any manner paints, puts or fixes
any advertisement, sign, notice or other writing or printing other than
notices posted in pursuance of law on or to any stone, tree, fence, stump,
pole, building or other structure which is in or upon the public highway or
which is on the property of another, without first obtaining the written
consent of such owner, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic-
tion shall be punishable by fine of not more than $10. 00, which fine shall
be payable to the State Board of Forestry for the purposes described in
this section; provided, however, that the State Roads Commission shall
have authority at any time to grant to any person or corporation the right
to place advertisements along or upon the public highways of the State,
said advertisement, however, to be used only in communication with
direction or danger signals, and subject to such limitations and restrictions
as the State Roads Commission shall impose at the time of the granting
of said permit or thereafter, and said permit in no event to be issued
unless the need for the direction or danger signals to be erected in connec-
tion therewith is clearly demonstrated to the satisfaction of the State
Roads Commission, and any person or corporation doing any of the things
prohibited by this section under and by virtue of a permit issued to him or
it by the State Roads Commission as aforesaid shall be immune from
prosecution for the commission of any acts under the terms of this section.

1931. ch. 539, sec. 68.

68. All State Roads constructed or maintained under the provisions of
this Article shall have a right of way at least forty feet in width.

1931. ch. 539, sec. 4.

69. If any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this Article shall,
for any reason, be adjudged by any Court of competent jurisdiction to be
unconstitutional and invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or
invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation
to the clause, sentence, paragraph or section thereof so found unconsti-
tutional and invalid. ¹

¹ Sec. 5 of ch. 539 of acts of 1931 repealed all laws prior thereto inconsistent there-
with.