Sec. 13a-124. Unauthorized signs.
Sec. 13a-124. Unauthorized signs. No person, firm or corporation shall erect or
maintain or cause to be erected or maintained, within three hundred feet of any state
highway, any sign which has thereon any of the following words: "Stop", "caution",
"danger", "dangerous", "warning" or "slow", or any other word or character or any
device, floodlight or spotlight, signal or symbol intended to give or capable of giving
warning or direction to or interfering with traffic, except with the approval or under the
direction of the commissioner. No provision of this section shall be construed to prevent
any officer of any municipality or any public utility company from erecting or maintaining any danger or warning sign required by statute or any sign designed for the
protection of the public or to aid in the operation of any public utility. No such direction
or danger sign shall bear the name of any article or product or the name or address of
any person, firm or corporation or any advertisement. The commissioner may enter
upon any property and remove any sign which does not conform to the provisions of
this section. Any person, any member of any firm or any corporation violating any
provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for the first
offense and not more than five hundred dollars for each subsequent offense.
(1949 Rev., S. 2248; 1958 Rev., S. 13-135; 1963, P.A. 226, S. 124; 518.)
History: 1963 acts added words "device, floodlight or spotlight, signal" and "interfering with" traffic and restated
former provisions: See title history.
See Sec. 14-310 re fraudulent or obstructive signs or signals.
Cited. 121 C. 478.
Sec. 13a-123 et seq. cited. 41 CS 66.