Chapter 93D

Section 1. In this chapter unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings: ''Interstate system'', that portion of the national system of interstate and defense highways located within this commonwealth, as officially designated, or as…

Section 2. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter ninety-three, no outdoor advertising shall be erected or maintained within six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main travelled way of a highway in the interstate or primary sys…

Section 2A. Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter ninety-three, no outdoor advertising shall be erected or maintained more than six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way and visible from the main travelled way of a highway in the interstate or primary…

Section 3. Under the procedures set forth in chapter ninety-three, the board is authorized to issue permits for the erection and maintenance of signs, displays and devices described in clauses (a), (d), (e) and (f), of section two, provided, however, that the erection and mainten…

Section 4. Any outdoor advertising which violates the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a public nuisance. The department shall have the same power to abate and remove any such nuisance as is given the board of health of a town under sections one hundred and twenty-three…

Section 5. The supreme judicial and superior courts shall have jurisdiction in equity upon the petition of the department, the board, the attorney general, of any city or town or any officer thereof, or of any interested party, to restrain the erection or maintenance of any outdo…

Section 6. The department is hereby authorized to maintain maps and to permit informational directories and advertising pamphlets to be made available at safety rest areas, and to establish centers at safety rest areas for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest…

Section 7. The department is hereby authorized to enter into an agreement with the United States Secretary of Transportation, as provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, to establish standards for size, lighting and spacing of signs, displays and devices described in subse…