Michigan Compiled Laws Act 106 Of 1972 Highway Advertising Act Of 1972 (252.301 - 252.325)

AN ACT to provide for the licensing, regulation, control, and prohibition of outdoor advertising adjacent to certain roads and highways; to prescribe powers and duties of certain state agencies and officials; to promulgate rules; to provide remedies and prescribe penalties for violations; and to repeal acts and parts of acts.

History: 1972, Act 106, Imd. Eff. Mar. 31, 1972 ;-- Am. 1998, Act 464, Eff. Mar. 23, 1999

Section 252.301 Short Title.
This act shall be known and may be cited as the “highway advertising act of 1972”. History: 1972, Act 106, Imd. Eff. Mar. 31,
Section 252.302 Definitions.
As used in this act: (a) "Abandoned or discontinued sign or sign structure" or "abandoned sign" means a sign or sign structure subject to...
Section 252.303 Purpose.
To improve and enhance scenic beauty consistent with section 131 of title 23 of the United States Code, 23 USC 131, and to limit...
Section 252.304 Size, Lighting, And Spacing Of Signs And Sign Structures; Regulation And Control; Exceptions.
This act regulates and controls the size, lighting, and spacing of signs and sign structures in adjacent areas and occupies the whole field of...
Section 252.305 Signs Subject To Act.
A person shall not engage or continue to engage in outdoor advertising through the erection, use or maintenance of any signs in an adjacent...
Section 252.306 Permit; Application; Contents Of Form; Change In Highway Designation Or Other Reason; Digital Billboard Permit; Owner Of Nonstandard Sign.
(1) A sign owner shall apply for an annual permit on a form prescribed by the department for each sign or sign structure to...
Section 252.307 Permit; Fees; Expiration; Renewal; Exception; Effect Of Nonpayment; Notice Of Permit Cancellation; Maximum Amount Of Increased Renewal Fees For Late Payments; Transfer Fee.
(1) A permit fee is payable annually in advance, to be credited to the state trunk line fund. For a digital billboard permit, the...
Section 252.307a Issuance Of Annual Permit For New Sign On Or After January 1, 2007; Permit Issued Before January 1, 2007; Interim Permit; Conditions; Limitations; Renewable Permit; Size Limitation On Service Club Signs Or Religious Organization Signs; Sign Advertising Product, Service, Or Retail Business Owned And Operated By Sign Owner; Transfer Of Permit; Permit Canceled Due To Nonpayment Of Renewal Fees.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, section 6(2)(a), and section 7b, the department shall not issue an annual permit for a new...
Section 252.307b Directional Sign For Publicly Or Privately Owned Activity Or Attraction; Permit; Limitations; Display Of Message.
(1) Notwithstanding anything in this act to the contrary, the department may issue a permit for a directional sign for a publicly or privately...
Section 252.308 Repealed. 1976, Act 265, Imd. Eff. Oct. 1, 1976.
Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to bond of permit applicant.
Section 252.309 Permit; Issuance Or Denial.
Except for signs existing on March 31, 1972, a permit shall be issued or denied within 30 days after proper receipt of the permit...
Section 252.310 Permit; Exemption.
The owner of a sign allowed under section 13(1)(b) or (c) is not required to obtain a permit for that sign. History: 1972, Act...
Section 252.311 Trimming Or Removing Trees Or Shrubs Within Highway Right-of-way; Violation; Penalty; Hearing; Removal Of Sign.
(1) A person who trims or removes trees or shrubs within a highway right-of-way for the purpose of making a proposed or existing sign...
Section 252.311a Permit To Manage Vegetation.
(1) Subject to the requirements of this section, the department is authorized to and shall issue permits for the management of vegetation to the...
Section 252.312 Placing Permit Number On Sign; Violation; Penalty.
(1) All persons holding permits under this act, at their own expense, shall place the permit number on each sign facing erected or maintained...
Section 252.313 Signs Prohibited On Adjacent Areas; Exceptions.
(1) A sign shall not be erected or maintained in an adjacent area where the facing of the sign is visible from an interstate...
Section 252.314 Signs On Land Leased From State; Conditions; Terms; Cancellation.
(1) The state highway commission may lease land owned by the department along an interstate highway, freeway or primary highway in business areas or...
Section 252.315 Size Requirements And Limitations.
(1) All signs erected or maintained in business areas or unzoned commercial and industrial areas shall comply with the following size requirements and limitations:...
Section 252.316 Illuminated Signs.
(1) A sign that is subject to this act may be illuminated so as to allow the sign to be seen and read but...
Section 252.317 Distances Between Signs; Sign Utilizing Digital Billboard; Distance From Interchange, Intersection, Or Rest Area.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (10) and (11), along interstate highways and freeways, a sign structure located in a business area or...
Section 252.317a Nonconforming Sign; Maintenance And Repair; Compliance With Federal Statutes, Rules, Regulations, Or Agreements; Nonstandard Sign; "Customary Maintenance And Repair" Defined.
(1) A nonconforming sign may continue to exist as long as it is not a destroyed, abandoned, discontinued, or prohibited sign. A nonconforming sign...
Section 252.317b Crossing Limited Right-of-way To Erect Or Maintain Sign; Penalties.
(1) The owner of a sign, agent of the owner of a sign, or a property owner or the agent of a property owner...
Section 252.318 Prohibited Signs Or Sign Structures.
Except as otherwise provided in this section, the following signs or sign structures are prohibited: (a) Those that purport to regulate, warn, or direct...
Section 252.318a Billboards; Advertising Purchase Or Consumption Of Tobacco Products Prohibited; Advertising Sexually Oriented Business Prohibited; Violation; Civil Fine.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act, beginning January 1, 2000, all billboards within this state are subject to this act and shall...
Section 252.318b Voluntary Agreement.
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this act to the contrary, the department may enter into a voluntary agreement as proposed by the Michigan...
Section 252.318c Michigan Billboard Advisory Council; Creation; Purpose; Duration; Recommendations As Advisory; Membership; Appointment; Terms; Vacancy.
(1) The Michigan billboard advisory council is created within the department for the purpose of advising the department and the state transportation commission regarding...
Section 252.319 Removal Of Signs Or Sign Structures; Procedure.
(1) Signs and their supporting structures erected or maintained in violation of this act may be removed by the department in the manner prescribed...
Section 252.320 Severability.
If any part of this act is found by a court to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remaining parts of this act shall not...
Section 252.321 Penalty; Misrepresentation.
Except as otherwise provided in section 7, a person who erects or maintains any sign or sign structure or other object for outdoor advertising...
Section 252.322 Removal Of Signs Or Sign Structures; Compensation; Condition.
(1) Just compensation shall be paid from the state trunk line fund upon the removal by or in behalf of the department of any...
Section 252.322a Rescission Of Rules.
All of the following rules are rescinded: (a) R 247.705 to R 247.707 of the Michigan administrative code. (b) R 247.710 of the Michigan...
Section 252.323 Rules; Hearings; Review.
(1) The department may promulgate and enforce rules to implement this act in accordance with and subject to Act No. 306 of the Public...
Section 252.324 Repeal.
Act No. 333 of the Public Acts of 1966, being sections 252.251 to 252.262 of the Compiled Laws of 1948, is repealed. History: 1972,...
Section 252.325 Repealed. 2006, Act 448, Eff. Jan. 1, 2007.
Compiler's Notes: The repealed section pertained to analysis and funding of study.

Last modified: October 10, 2016