Section 17 AAC 60.995 - DefinitionsIn this chapter
(1) "activity" means a tourist-oriented activity, specific service activity, or RCIA;(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the department;(3) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;(4) "driveway or intersecting road" means the road that a motorist takes from a highway with a tourist sign to the activity associated with the sign;(5) "highway rest stop or pullout" has the meaning given in 17 AAC 05.990;(6) "location" means a 2,500 foot segment of highway right-of-way bisected by a driveway or intersecting road;(7) "logo" means a square design used by a specific service activity to distinguish itself from similar specific service activities;(8) "logo panel" means a highway sign and posts on which logos may be mounted;(9) "logo sign" means a logo and a logo panel consisting of a sign on which logos for gas, food, lodging, and camping are mounted; a logo sign consists of a logo and a logo panel;(10) "RCIA" means recreational and cultural interest area;(11) "recreational and cultural interest area" or "RCIA" has the meaning given the term at 17 AAC 60.205;(12) "sign contractor" means a person included in the list described in 17 AAC 60.910(b);(13) "specific service activity" means a commercial activity that offers gas, food, lodging, or camping;(14) "symbol" means a square icon that accurately conveys the nature of its associated service or activity but does not reflect the name or a logo for the service or activity;(15) "TODS" means a tourist-oriented directional sign;(16) "tourist-oriented activity" means a motorist service, tourist attraction, or business of significant interest to the traveling public; "tourist-oriented activity" does not include an RCIA;(17) "tourist-oriented directional sign" or "TODS" means a sign erected in a highway right-of-way for the purpose of alerting the traveling public to a nearby tourist-oriented activity;(18) "tourist sign" means a TODS, logo sign, RCIA sign, or traveler information kiosk;(19) "trailblazing sign" means a sign that guides a motorist traveling from a sign regulated under this chapter to the activity or RCIA represented on the regulated sign;(20) "traveler information kiosk" means an area in a highway rest stop or pullout with a structure housing traveler information about businesses, services, and activities in the local area;(21) "urban portion of an organized borough" means a location characterized by one or more of the following:(A) dense residential or commercial development;(B) roads used primarily for short local transportation as opposed to long distance through traffic;(C) numerous intersecting roads and driveways;Eff. 5/18/97, Register 142; am 3/1/2002, Register 161Authority:AS 19.05.010
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