Code of Virginia - Title 33.1 Highways, Bridges And Ferries - Chapter 7 Outdoor Advertising In Sight Of Public Highways

33.1-351 Policy; definitions
In order to promote the safety, convenience, and enjoyment of travel on and protection of the public investment in highways within this Commonwealth, to attract ...

33.1-352 Enforcement of provisions by Commissioner
The Commissioner shall administer and enforce the provisions of this article. He may, in the performance of his duties hereunder, assign to division engineers and ...

33.1-353 Territory to which article applies
The territory under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner for the purposes of this article shall include all of the Commonwealth, exclusive of that ...

33.1-354 Entry upon lands; hindering Commissioner or agent
The Commissioner and all employees under his direction may enter upon such lands as may be necessary in the performance of their functions and duties ...

33.1-355 Excepted signs, advertisements and advertising structures
The following signs and advertisements, if securely attached to real property or advertising structures, and the advertising structures, or parts thereof, upon which they are ...

33.1-356 License required of outdoor advertiser
No person shall engage or continue in the business of outdoor advertising in this Commonwealth outside of the corporate limits of municipalities or within the ...

33.1-357 Revocation of license
The Commissioner shall have the right, after thirty days' notice in writing to the licensee, to revoke any license granted by him upon repayment of ...

33.1-358 Judicial review of revocation
Any person whose license is so revoked is entitled to judicial review of such revocation in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Process Act ...

33.1-359 Bond required from out-of-state licensee
No license to engage or continue in the business of outdoor advertising shall be granted to any person having his principal place of business outside ...

33.1-360 Permits required
Except as in this article otherwise provided, no person, whether engaged in the business of outdoor advertising or not, shall erect, use, maintain, post or ...

33.1-361 Applications for permits; fees
A separate application for a permit shall be made for each separate advertisement or advertising structure, on a form furnished by the Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, ...

33.1-362 Duration and renewal of permit
Except as provided in § 33.1-365, permits issued hereunder shall run for the calendar year, and may be renewed upon application made upon forms furnished ...

33.1-363 Area of advertising structure
The area of an advertising structure shall be determined from its outside measurements, excluding as a part thereof, the height and overall width of supports ...

33.1-364 Revocation of permit
The Commissioner may, after thirty days' notice in writing to the permittee, revoke any permit issued by him under § 33.1-360 upon repayment of a ...

33.1-365 Temporary permit
In any case if an applicant for a permit shall certify in his application that he is unable to state the actual or proposed location ...

33.1-366 Appeal from refusal or revocation of permit
Any person aggrieved by any action of the Commissioner in refusing to grant or in revoking a permit under § 33.1-361 or § 33.1-364 may ...

33.1-367 Transfer of licenses and permits to successor concerns
Any license or permit issued pursuant to this article may be transferred to any person who acquires as a successor the business of the person ...

33.1-368 Identification of advertising structure or advertisement
The Commissioner shall require that each advertising structure and each advertisement not posted or displayed on an advertising structure shall bear an identification number, furnished ...

33.1-369 Certain advertisements or structures prohibited
No advertisement or advertising structure shall be erected, maintained or operated: (1) Within 660 feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of the Blue ...

33.1-370 Special provisions pertaining to interstate, national highway system, and federal-aid primary highw...
A. Notwithstanding the territorial limitation set out in § 33.1-353, no sign or advertisement adjacent to any interstate, national highway system, or federal-aid primary highway ...

33.1-370.1 Removal of billboard signs under this chapter prohibited without just compensation
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no billboard sign subject to this chapter may be removed by action of a county, city, or town under ...

33.1-370.2 Maintenance and repair of nonconforming billboard signs
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, maintenance of and repairs to nonconforming billboard signs shall be governed by this section and any applicable regulations promulgated ...

33.1-371 Regulations and agreements with United States implementing { 33.1-370
The Commonwealth Transportation Board may issue regulations, and is authorized to enter into agreements with the United States as provided in 23 United States Code ...

33.1-371.1 Selective pruning permits; fees; penalty
Notwithstanding the provisions of § 33.1-353 or any other provision of law: 1. The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner shall by permit authorize the selective pruning, within ...

33.1-371.2 Tree-trimming policies
In order to preserve roadside trees that do not adversely affect highway operations, maintenance, or safety, the Commonwealth Transportation Board shall adopt policies governing the ...

33.1-372 Pasting advertisements prohibited in certain instances
No advertisement shall be pasted or glued on any building, fence, wall, tree, rock or other similar structure or object, unless the same be an ...

33.1-373 Advertising on rocks, poles, etc., within limits of highway; civil penalty
Any person who in any manner (i) paints, prints, places, puts or affixes any advertisement upon or to any rock, stone, tree, fence, stump, pole, ...

33.1-374 Harmony of regulations
No zoning board or commission or any other public officer or agency shall permit any sign, advertisement or advertising structure which is prohibited under the ...

33.1-375 Violation a nuisance; abatement
Any sign, advertisement or advertising structure which is erected, used, maintained, operated, posted or displayed in violation of §§ 33.1-369, 33.1-370, or § 33.1-372 or ...

33.1-375.1 Commissioner may enter into certain agreements; penalties
A. The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner may enter into agreements with the local governing body of Fairfax County authorizing local law-enforcement agencies or other local governmental ...

33.1-376 Disposition of fees
All moneys received by the Commissioner under the provisions of this article shall be paid by him into the state treasury and allocated to the ...

33.1-377 Penalty for violation
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this article for which violation no other penalty is prescribed by this article shall be guilty ...

33.1-378 Construction of article
This article shall be liberally construed with a view to the effective accomplishment of its purposes. (Code 1950, § 33-324; 1970, c. 322.) ...

33.1-379 Prohibition of such signs
It shall be unlawful for any person to erect or maintain alongside, or in plain view of, any public highway any false or misleading sign ...

33.1-380 Penalty for violation of preceding section; existing signs
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of § 33.1-379 shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not to exceed ten ...

33.1-381 Removal of such signs by Commissioner
The Commonwealth Transportation Commissioner, whenever he shall ascertain that any such sign gives incorrect information, shall notify the person who erected the same, and the ...