N.J. Admin. Code § 16:41E-2.1
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Amusement park" means a commercially operated enterprise that offers rides, games, and other similar forms of entertainment. The term includes theme parks and water parks.
"Arts and cultural site" means a place that, as its principal use, displays historic, scientific, or artistic objects to the general public, which studies and conserves those objects and is accredited by a national organization that meets applicable national standards. These sites include, but are not limited to: arboretums, aquariums, museums, sculpture gardens, and zoos. Arts and cultural site also means a place that, as its principal use, is the site of performance art, such as dance, music, opera, or theater and where performances are offered for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public, such as, but not limited to, concert halls, performing arts facilities, and theatres.
"Attraction" means a particular type of facility or a location that is of regional interest to the traveling public and that provides, as a primary use, amusement, historical, cultural, or leisure activities to the public including, but not limited to: amusement parks; arts and cultural sites; historical sites; golf courses, ski slopes, equestrian facilities; natural attractions and parks; stadiums or athletic arenas; and breweries, distilleries, or wineries.
"Brewery" means a facility that currently is licensed by the State of New Jersey as a limited brewery, and which offers tours to the public and that sells beer, which it produces, to the public for on or off-premise consumption.
"Camping facility" means an establishment that, as its principal use, offers temporary outdoor sleeping accommodations for use by the general public. Such a facility may accommodate the use of tents and recreational vehicles, such as, but not limited to, campers or motor homes.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Transportation or such persons as the Commissioner may designate, when legally permissible.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Transportation.
"Distillery" means a facility that is licensed by the State of New Jersey as a craft distillery, which offers tours to the public and sells distilled alcoholic beverages, which it produces, to the public for on or off-premise consumption.
"Equestrian facility" means a facility created and maintained for the primary purpose of accommodating the training, showing, or competition of horses and which is open to the public.
"Food facility" means an establishment that, as its principal use, offers meals and refreshments to the general public and has on-site seating where these can be consumed.
"Gas or fuel facility" means an establishment that, as its principal use, offers conventional fuels, such as gasoline, to the general public for the refueling of vehicles. In addition, the establishment may also offer alternative fuels, such as, but not limited to, diesel fuels, alternative vehicle fuels, flex-fuels, and electric vehicle recharging facilities.
"Golf course" means a regulation-sized, minimum 18-hole course consisting mostly of par-4 holes with a mix of par-3 and par-5 holes that is open to the general public. It shall not mean a 9-hole course, an executive course, a par-3 course, a driving range complex, or other such lesser sized golf facilities.
"Highway" means any road, thoroughfare, street, boulevard, lane, court, trailway, right-of-way, or easement used for, or laid out and intended for, public passage of vehicles or people.
"Historic site" means any district, site, building, structure, or object designated by the United States, the State of New Jersey, the county, or the municipality where the property is located as being significant in American history, architecture, archaeology, engineering, or culture.
"Interchange" means a system of interconnecting roadways that provides for traffic movement between two or more highways that do not intersect at grade.
"Interstate highway" means a highway constructed within this State and approved by the Secretary of Transportation of the United States as an official portion of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways pursuant to the provisions of Title 23 of the United States Code.
"Limited access highway" means a highway, especially designed for through traffic, over which abutting lot owners have no right to light, air, or direct access, such as Interstate highways, parkways, and freeways.
"Lodging facility" means an establishment which, as its principal use, offers temporary sleeping accommodations for use by the general public.
"Logo sign panel" means an individual sign panel that conforms to the MUTCD, is affixed to a specific service sign, specific service ramp sign, or trailblazer sign, and which identifies one particular facility by the display of its symbol, trademark, or name.
"Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices" or "MUTCD" means the manual periodically published and revised by the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, 732 North Capitol Street, NW, Washington, DC 20401 or online at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/.
"Natural attraction or park" means a publicly or privately owned place that is open to the general public and recognized for its natural or naturalized scenic beauty or interest. Natural attractions and parks include, but are not limited to, arboretums, caves, forests, gardens, lakes, mountains, oceans, parks, and wildlife management areas.
"Off-premise sign" means any sign authorized by an outdoor advertising permit pursuant to N.J.A.C. 16:41C.
"Re-fabrication and re-installation" means the work expended to fabricate and install a new logo sign panel for a facility that has elected to change the design of the panel. Re-fabrication and re-installation does not mean the work expended to replace a panel that has been knocked down, damaged, or is replaced as part of customary maintenance.
"Road" means that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel and parking lanes, but exclusive of the sidewalk, berm, or shoulder even though such sidewalk, berm, or shoulder is used by persons riding bicycles or other human-powered vehicles.
"Roadway" means the portion of a highway, including shoulders, for vehicular use. A divided highway has two or more roadways. In the event a highway includes two or more separate roadways, the term roadway as used in this chapter shall refer to any such roadway separately, but not to all such roadways collectively.
"Ski slope" means part of a hill or mountain improved, designed, or primarily used for skiing, and which is open to the public.
"Specific service ramp sign" means a sign located along the exit ramp that displays the logo sign panels of participating facilities according to their service type, such as gas, food, lodging, camping, or attraction, and which provides directional or distance information to those facilities.
"Specific service sign" means a sign erected in conformance with the MUTCD that identifies one or more of the following service types: gas, food, lodging, camping, or attraction, and that displays logo sign panels of eligible facilities that provide the identified type of service. Specific service signs are placed along the main line of a highway.
"Stadiums or athletic arenas" means a place where athletic events are held, such as, but not limited to, arenas, coliseums, equestrian facilities, race tracks, and stadiums, whether public, private, or associated with a college or university.
"Supplemental Guide Signing Manual" means a manual published, as amended and supplemented, by the Department that provides the standards, criteria, and limitations for the installation of supplemental guide signing for traffic generators and motorist attractions along the highway system and which can be found at http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/eng/documents/SGSM/.
"TODS" means the Tourist Oriented Directional Signs Program as authorized by N.J.A.C. 16:41D.
"Trailblazer sign" means a guide sign that is erected on a crossroad leading away from the participating highway that identifies the participating facility and provides directional information to it.
"Vendor" means a contractor procured by the Department to implement the Logo Program, pursuant to N.J.S.A. 27:7-21.12.a and b.
"Winery" means a facility that is licensed by the State of New Jersey as a farm winery or plenary winery, and which offers samples to visitors and sells wines that it produces, to consumers on the winery premises.
"Zone 1" means the following counties of the State: Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Morris, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren.
"Zone 2" means the following counties of the State: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Salem.
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