§ 24-10-106 — Size, lighting and spacing; where signs may be erected

Wyoming § 24-10-106

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 24: Highways
• Ch. 10: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING

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(a) The minimum standards and criteria for the size,
lighting and spacing of outdoor advertising, and the criteria
for unzoned commercial or industrial zones or areas within the
controlled area along the interstate and primary systems
designated in W.S. 24-10-104 shall conform to those promulgated
and submitted by the secretary of transportation to the congress
of the United States on or about January 10, 1967.
(b) No sign face within the state of Wyoming shall exceed
the following limits:
(i) Maximum area-twelve hundred (1,200) square feet;
(ii) Maximum length-sixty (60) feet;
(iii) Maximum height-twenty-five (25) feet.
(c) No more than two (2) facings visible and readable from
the same direction on the main-traveled way may be erected on
any one (1) sign structure. Whenever two (2) facings are so
positioned, neither shall exceed three hundred twenty-five (325)
square feet.
(d) Double-faced, back-to-back and V-type signs shall be
considered as a single sign or structure.
(e) No new sign shall be erected closer than five hundred
(500) feet to an existing off-premises sign adjacent to an
interstate highway; provided, that signs may be erected closer
than five hundred (500) feet if the sign structures on the same
side of the interstate are not simultaneously visible and are
separated by a building or other enclosed structure.
(f) No new sign shall be erected closer than one hundred
fifty (150) feet to an existing off-premise sign adjacent to a
primary highway; provided, that signs may be erected closer than
one hundred fifty (150) feet if the sign structures on the same
side of the highway are not visible simultaneously or are
separated by a building or other enclosed structure.
(g) Signs may not be located within five hundred (500)
feet of any of the following which are adjacent to the highway,
unless the signs are in an incorporated area:
(i) Public parks;
(ii) Public forests;
(iii) Public playground;
(iv) Scenic areas as designated by the department of
transportation or other state agency having and exercising such
authority;
(v) Cemeteries.
(h) No sign may be located on an interstate highway or
freeway within five hundred (500) feet of an interchange, or
intersection at grade, or rest area measured in both directions
from the point of widening as constructed.
(j) The location of sign structure situated on the limited
access primary highways in commercial or industrial zoned area
between streets, roads or highways entering or intersecting the
main-traveled way shall conform to the following minimum spacing
criteria:
(i) Where the distance between centerlines of
intersecting streets or highways is less than one thousand
(1,000) feet, a minimum spacing between structures of one
hundred fifty (150) feet may be permitted between the
intersecting streets or highways;
(ii) Where the distance between centerlines of
intersecting streets or highways is one thousand (1,000) feet or
more, minimum spacing between sign structures shall be three
hundred (300) feet.
(k) The commission may, for good cause shown, permit a
variance in the restrictions set forth herein.