Title 27 — Transportation

This chapter may be called the “Arkansas Highway Beautification Act”.

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Information center” means an area or site established, operated, and maintained at a safety rest area for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State of Arkansas and providing such other information as the State High…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas adjacent to certain sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and federal-aid primary and other state highways desi…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that outdoor advertising signs, displays, or devices which do not conform to the requirements of this subchapter, including those for which there was a failure to first secure permits for the erection of the signs, are nonconforming adv…

(a) The erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas six hundred sixty feet (660′) in width from the nearest edge of any right-of-way of any interstate, primary, or other state highway designated by the State Highway Commission shall be re…

(a) With the exception of and excluding those highways, or portions of highways, which are designated by the State Highway Commission as scenic byways, nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and device…

Any sign, display, or device lawfully erected which does not conform to this subchapter shall be required to be removed by the end of the fifth year after it becomes nonconforming under the provisions hereof.

(a) The State Highway Commission, upon receipt of a declaration, resolution, certified copy of an ordinance, or other clear direction from a community, board of county commissioners, municipality, county, city, a specific region or area of the state, or other governmental or quas…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall give thirty (30) days' notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the land on which an advertising device is located to remove it if it is a prohibited device or cause it to conform to rules if it is an authorized device. (b) If the owner of…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to require the removal of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices not in conformity with this subchapter, which right may be enforced by means of a mandatory injunction or other appropriate remedy. (b) Howe…

As provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, the State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreement, which agreement shall reflect customary use in the outdoor advertising industry as determined under § 27-74-211, with the United States Secretary of Transportati…

(a) It is the legislative intent and purpose of this section to specifically define a certain term used in the agreement entered into between the State Highway Commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter, as amend…

(a) After survey to determine existing outdoor advertising structures in this state and after public hearing, the State Highway Commission shall determine customary use in the display of outdoor advertising in this state with regard to size, lighting, and spacing in areas zoned c…

(a) It is the intent and purpose of this section to require the State Highway Commission to act on each application for a permit for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising coming within the purview of this chapter within sixty (60) days after such application is file…

In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain maps and to permit informational directories and advertising pamphlets to be made available at safety rest areas along the interstate, primary,…

The General Assembly finds and declares that outdoor advertising signs, displays, or devices which are located more than six hundred sixty feet (660′) off the nearest edge of the right-of-way, located outside of urban areas, visible from the main-traveled way of the interstate, p…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of § 27-74-203, signs, displays, and devices which are located more than six hundred sixty feet (660′) from the nearest edge of the right-of-way of interstate and primary highways, outside of urban areas, visible from the main-traveled way…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to require the removal of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices which do not conform to the provisions of this subchapter and which are lawfully erected beyond six hundred sixty feet (660′) from the neare…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the establishment and use and maintenance of outdoor junkyards in areas adjacent to certain sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways and the primary and other state highways designated by the State Highway…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Automobile graveyard” means any establishment or place of business that is maintained, used, or operated for the storing, keeping, buying, or selling of five (5) or more wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles;(2) “Junk” means o…

Any person contemplating or planning the establishment of a junkyard is charged with notice of the provisions of this subchapter with respect to screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of such junkyards.

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that junkyards and automobile graveyards that do not conform to the requirements of this subchapter are public nuisances. (b) The provisions of this subchapter may be enforced by means of restraining order, mandatory injunction, or othe…

(a) Except as otherwise herein provided, no junkyards shall be established, operated, or maintained after June 29, 1967, any portion of which is within one thousand feet (1,000′) of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate, primary, or other state highway designated…

(1) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prohibit the establishment, maintenance, and operation of outdoor junkyards, automobile graveyards, and scrap metal processing facilities within one thousand feet (1000′) of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of interstate or prima…

(a) (1) The screening of any junkyard by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means, so as not to be visible from the main-traveled way of any interstate or primary state highway, may be required by:(A) The State Highway Commission; or(B) The circuit court of …

The State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreement with the United States Secretary of Transportation, as provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, relating to the control of junkyards in areas adjacent to those sections of the federal-aid interstate and fed…

(a) There is created the “Highway Clean-up Grant Program”, to be administered by the State Highway Commission. (b) The program shall provide grants to cities and counties to assist local law enforcement, county prosecuting attorneys, and city attorneys with the enforcement of thi…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the restoration, preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty within and adjacent to many of the state highways are conducive to safe, efficient, and comfortable use of these facilities and necessary to protect the public investm…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire and improve strips of land necessary for the restoration, preservation, and enhancement of scenic beauty within and adjacent to the state highway system and the federal-aid highways of this state, including acquisition for…