CHAPTER 230

An Act to amend and reenact § 33-817, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, relating to prohibited advertisements or structures.

[H 651]
Approved March 138, 1968

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 33-317, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 33-317. Certain advertisements or structures prohibited.—No ad-
vertisement or advertising structure shall be erected, maintained or
operated :

(1) Within six hundred sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right
of way of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Colonial National Parkway, the
Mount Vernon Boulevard, or any other parkway within this State or
within six hundred sixty feet of any public cemetery, public park reserva-
tion, public playground, national forest or State forest, outside the limits
of any municipality; provided, however, that any advertisement or ad-
vertising structure which is lawfully in place on April six, nineteen hundred
sixty-six, and which does not conform to the six hundred sixty foot
distance requirement may be maintained for the life of such advertisement
or advertising structure; or

(2) Which involves motion or rotation of any part of the structure
or displays intermittent lights within one hundred feet of the nearest edge
of the pavement of any highway; or

(3) Which uses the words “stop” or “danger” prominently displayed
or presents or implies the need or requirement of stopping or the existence
of danger on any highway, or which is a copy or imitation of official
highway signs; or

(5) Which, within visible distance of any highway, advertises any
county, city, town, village, historic place or shrine without the consent,
in writing, of such county, city, town or village or of the owner of such
historic place or shrine; or

(6) Which is mobile and is designed to and effectively does distract
the attention of passing motorists on any highway by flashing lights,
loud and blatant noises or movable objects; or

(7) Which involve red, green or amber lights or reflectorized
material and which resemble traffic signal lights or traffic control signs
and is within visible distance of any highway ; or

(8) Within fifteen feet of the nearest edge of the pavement of any
highway; provided, however, that the Commissioner may waive this re-
striction whenever the advertisement or advertising structure is actually
anchored outside of the right of way, and, within his discretion, does
not constitute a safety hazard or conflict with any other restriction con-
tained in this section; or

(9) Atany public road intersection in such manner as would obstruct
the clear vision in either direction between a point on the center line of the
side road twenty feet from the nearest edge of the pavement of the main
road and points on the main road four hundred feet distant, measured along
the nearest edge of the pavement of the main road; or

At any grade intersection of a public road and a railroad in

such manner as would obstruct the clear vision in either direction within
triangular areas formed by (a) a point at the center of the railroad-public
road intersection, (b) a point on the public road four hundred feet from
the center of the railroad-public road intersection as measured along the
center of the public road, and (c) a point on the railroad five hundred
feet from the center of the railroad- public road intersection as measured
along the center of the railroad; or

(11) Ator near any curve in a road in such a manner as to obstruct
the clear vision of traffic from any one point on such curve to any other
point not more than four hundred feet apart, as measured between each
point from the nearest edge of the pavement: or

(12) Which advertises activities which are illegal under State or
federal laws or regulations in effect at the location of such sign or adver-
tisement or at the location of such activities; or

(13) Which is obsolete or inconsistent with this act or regulations
adopted by the State Highway Commission pursuant to this act.