PURPOSE: This rule defines where eligible logo signing can be located.

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: The publication of the full text of the material that the adopting agency has incorporated by reference in this rule would be unduly cumbersome or expensive. Therefore, the full text of that material will be made available to any interested person at both the Office of the Secretary of State and the office of the adopting agency, pursuant to section 536.031.4, RSMo. Such material will be provided at the cost established by state law.

1. (1) Specific service signs on the interstate and primary highway system shall be erected not less than eight hundred feet (800'), or as approved by the department, in advance of the exit direction sign at the interchange from which the services are available. They shall be installed in the order of tourist attraction, camping, lodging, food and gas as observed in the direction of travel. No more than four
2. (4) specific service signs shall be erected per exit direction. Logos from two (2) specific service panels may be combined on a single panel to accommodate all five (5) specific services if four (4) specific panels already exist at an interchange.
3. (2) The location of specific service signs and supplemental directional signs shall be approved by the district office. As determined by the district office, the signs shall be located so as to have the least impact on the scenic environment and must avoid conflict with other signs within the highway right-of-way. Lateral clearance and height shall be as specified in 2A-23 and 2A-24 of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.
4. (3) Specific service signs shall be spaced a minimum of eight hundred feet (800') apart or as approved by the department.
5. (4) Specific service signs shall be displayed as designated in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, Part II-G and these rules.
6. (5) Specific service signs shall not be erected at an interchange where an exit ramp is provided but no convenient reentry ramp exists in the same direction of travel. 7 CSR 10-9
7. (6) Specific service signs shall not be erected at interchanges where the interchange ramps connect directly to another freeway.
8. (7) Specific service signs shall not be erected in an area where there is less than three-quarters (3/4) of a mile between interchange gore points when measured in one (1) direction or as approved by the department.
9. (8) Specific service signs must be shoulder mounted signs and will not be allowed on overhead trusses or bridges.
10. (9) Specific service sign spacing from other signs must be in accordance with the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.

AUTHORITY: Art. IV, section 29, Mo. Const., section 226.535, RSMo 1994,* 23 United States Code Section 131(f). Original rule filed Feb. 10, 1989, effective Aug. 29, 1990. Rescinded and readopted: Filed Jan. 3, 1991, effective June 10, 1991. Amended: Filed Sept. 15, 1998, effective April 30, 1999. *Original authority 1972.