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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 625

any outdoor sign, display, light, device, structure,
figure, painting, drawing, message, plaque, placard,
poster, billboard, or other thing regardless of content,
which is designed, intended or used to advertise or
inform the traveling public of the sale or lease of the
property, a product grown, produced or manufactured
therein or thereon, advertise the name of the property
owner, agent, assignee or lessee of the property.

[(i)] (J) "Erect" means to construct, build, raise,
assemble, place, affix, attach, create, paint, draw, or
in any other way bring into being or establish but it
shall not include any of the foregoing activities when
performed as an incident to the change of advertising
message or customary maintenance or repair of a sign or
sign structure.

[(j)] (K) "Center line of the highway" means a line
equidistant from the edges of the median separating the
main—traveled ways of a divided interstate or other
limited access highway, or the center line of the
main—traveled way of a nondivided highway.

[(k)] (L) "Visible" means capable of being seen
(whether or not legible) without visual aid by a person
of normal visual acuity.

[(l)] (M) "Interstate highway" means any highway
within that portion of the State highway system so
designated or as may hereafter be so designated by the
State [Roads Commission] HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION which has
been approved by the Secretary of Transportation pursuant
to § 103 of Title 23, United States Code.

[((m)] (N) "Expressway" means any highway
constructed as an expressway as that term is defined in §
29 (c) of Article 89B of the Annotated Code of Maryland.

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[No] AFTER JULY 1, 1968, A person, firm or
corporation [shall, after July 1, 1968] MAY NOT use,
lease, rent or permit the use of his, HER, or its
property or buildings thereon within [six hundred sixty
feet (660')] 660 of the nearest edge of the right-of—way
of the federal—aid primary system except in zoned and
unzoned commercial and industrial areas within this
State, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining thereon
any new outdoor advertising sign[, display or device]
which is wholly or partially visible from the
main—traveled way of such highway, [except as hereinafter
provided:] AND AFTER JULY 1, 1975, A PERSON, FIRM, OR
CORPORATION MAY NOT USE, LEASE, RENT, OR PERMIT THE USE
OF HIS, HER, OR ITS PROPERTY OR BUILDINGS THEREON LOCATED