MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               179

signs and the regulations shall be consistent with and in
the interest of the safety and welfare of the traveling
public. However, the Administration may not make any
rule or regulation relating to on—premise advertising
along the expressway and interstate system of highways
contrary to the provisions of § 258. No permit is
required to erect a sign denoting a place of religious
worship or historical monument or location, tut such sign
shall be located in accordance with rules and regulations
of the State Highway Administration. The Administration
may make rules and regulations relating to the erection
of signs and furnish a copy thereof to any interested
person upon request. The Administration may erect such
traffic and other signs along highways as, in its
judgment, are required for the safety or convenience of
the persons using the highways, provided further, nothing
herein shall prevent the owner of land abutting a highway
other than an expressway, which runs parallel or
partially parallel to an expressway and which is within
six hundred and sixty (660) feet of an expressway, from
using or permitting the use of said land for outdoor
advertising purposes provided any advertising sign
erected thereon shall face the highway which is not
constructed as an expressway.

252.

After July 1, 1968, a person, firm or corporation
may not use, lease, rent or permit the use of his, her,
or its property or buildings thereon within 660 FEET 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 which is wholly or partially visible
from the main—traveled way of such highway, 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 outside of urban
areas beyond 660 feet of the nearest edge of the
right—of—way of the federal—aid primary system, for the
purpose of erecting or maintaining thereon any new
outdoor advertising sign which is visible from the
main—traveled way of the highway, and erected with the
purpose of its message being read from such main—traveled
way, unless otherwise provided in this section.

(a) General: The following signs shall not be

permitted:

(i) Signs which imitate or resemble any official
traffic sign, signal, or device.

(ii) Signs which are erected or maintained upon
trees or painted or drawn upon rocks or other natural
features.

(iii) Signs which are erected or maintained in such