APPLICATION TO ERECT WHITE ARROWBOARD SIGNS ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM
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Wisconsin Department of Transportation DT1903
Sign Erection Regulations
Extracted from Chapter Trans 200, Wisconsin Administrative Code
Trans 200.02 Authority for the erection of signs.
1. The Department of Transportation or its authorized representatives in the case of the marked routes of state trunk highways, and
local authorities with respect to highways under their exclusive jurisdiction, may place and maintain such traffic signs and signals
as they deem necessary to warn, guide, inform, and regulate traffic, and also such signs and signals as are expressly permitted or
required by the statutes or by these regulations, subject, however, to such limitations and restrictions as are contained in the
statutes and these regulations.
2. The Department of Transportation with respect to the state trunk highway system, and local authorities with respect to highways
under their jurisdiction, may erect or permit any department of the federal, state or local government to erect such standard signs
as the Department of Transportation or local authorities deem necessary to inform and warn the public of federal or state laws,
local ordinances and lawful regulations by any such department.
Trans 200.03 Guidance signs for resorts, hotels, county institutions, etc.
1. Any person or persons conducting a summer or winter resort, hotel, or any place of public entertainment or instruction, or any
place of religious worship, or persons having charge of any county institution or of any scientific experiment for the furtherance
of agriculture or other science or art may be permitted to erect guidance signs of a type approved by the Department subject to
the conditions contained in this section.
2. No guidance sign may be permitted on freeways, including the national system of interstate highways.
3. Only where such institution or business location is removed from the state trunk highway system may such guidance signs
be erected.
4. Such guidance signs may be erected at only two intersections of the state trunk highway system with county highways or town
roads, and at such intersections of county or town highways as are deemed necessary by the local authorities having jurisdiction
over those highways.
5. One sign of an approved size and shape may be erected at the entrance to any of the enumerated institutions or businesses.
6. No person may be permitted to erect or maintain a guidance sign on a highway if that person has any advertising in the vicinity
of the intersection where the guidance sign is proposed to be erected or has a business sign under 200.06 on the same highway.
7. All guidance signs erected on any public highway shall be of a type and design approved by the Department. No flashing,
illuminated, or reflecting signs or installation shall be permitted.
8. No guidance sign may be erected upon state trunk highway right of way at an intersection with the state trunk highway system until
the location and manner of erection of the have the written approval of the Department. No guidance sign may be erected on the
right of way of a county and town highway until the location and manner of erection of the sign have the written approval of the
local authorities having jurisdiction over the said highway.
9. All guidance signs and their supports shall be maintained in good condition. Signs or installations not satisfactorily maintained
shall be removed by the officers in charge of the maintenance of the highway.
Trans 200.04 Prohibited signs and signals.
1. No person may erect, cause to be erected, permit to be erected or maintain any advertising, warning, route, guide, information,
or regulatory sign or signal within the limits of any highway except as authorized in sections 200.02, 200.03, 200.05 or 200.06.
2. No person may place or maintain nor may any public authority permit upon any highway any official traffic control device bearing
thereon any commercial advertising except as authorized in 200.06.
