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same by the violation of the regulation so prescribed. In any trial of any
person charged with a violation of any of the provisions of this section oral
proof of the existence of such signboard posted as herein provided and its
contents shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of the validity of the
regulation thereon prescribed.

Road Signs.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 66.

84. 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. 45.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 67. 1939, ch. 230.

85. Any person, firm, corporation or association which 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 misde-
meanor, and upon conviction 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 it shall be
illegal for any person, firm, corporation or association other than the State
Roads Commission or incorporated cities or towns of this State, to display
within three hundred (300) feet of a road, street or highway in this State a
sign bearing the word or words: stop, curve, warning, slow, danger, listen,
look, school or slow, or any other such word or words used or to be used
in directing drivers, and any person, firm, corporation or other association
violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon
conviction, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars ($50) for the first offense and
a fine of one hundred dollars ($100) or thirty days (30) in jail for the
second and subsequent offenses. Provided, however, that nothing herein
contained shall prohibit any person, firm, corporation or association, with
the approval of the owner and the State Roads Commission from erecting
a sign or signs to indicate the direction and distance to a specific place
or places designated on said sign or signs.

Art. 39A, sec. 24, is almost identical with this section.

1931, ch. 539, sec. 68.

86. 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.

87. 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 unconstitu-
tional and invalid.¹

¹ Sec. 5 of ch. 539 of acts of 1931 repealed all laws prior thereto inconsistent therewith.