Minn. R. agency 175, ch. 8810, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DEVICES, pt. 8810.1100
For the purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 173.16, subdivision 4, distance restrictions between advertising devices apply only to those devices physically located on the same side of the highway regardless of the direction of travel to which the display or message is directed. Measurements to determine the location of one advertising device in relation to another will be made along the edge of the roadbed between the closest extremities of said devices, with the termini projected along lines perpendicular to the edge of the roadbed.
For the purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 173.16, subdivision 4, clause (4), outside of incorporated cities, villages, or boroughs where an intersection includes ramps or legs, the intersection shall be construed as the entire area circumscribed by a line connecting all points where the outmost ramps or legs leave or enter the main traveled roadway and where they intersect with another highway or road. Advertising devices will not be permitted within 500 feet of the point where the outmost ramps or legs leave or enter the main traveled roadway or for 500 feet on the other highway or road from the point of its intersection with the ramps or legs, nor in the area between said points. This is defined as the area adjacent to the ramp and legs. Devices may however be affixed on or located to a building at such an intersection but in such a manner so as to cause no greater visual obstruction than the building itself.
For the purpose of Minnesota Statutes, section 173.16, subdivision 4, clause (5), on primary highways or fully controlled access freeways outside of incorporated cities, villages, or boroughs where there are no ramps or legs, the prohibited area at an intersection shall be construed as the entire area of 300 feet outwardly as measured along the roadway from the center point of two intersecting roadbeds. Advertising will not be permitted within this 300-foot area.
For the purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 173.16, subdivision 4, clauses (4) and (5), another highway shall mean any highway, street, road, or public way for vehicular travel, maintained by the state or any other public agency, which enters directly into the main traveled way of the highway which it is said to intersect.
For the purposes of Minnesota Statutes, section 173.16, subdivisions 4 and 5, the restrictive distances at "T" intersections shall apply to lands on both sides of the highway as though the road physically ending at the highway continued and extended beyond at a 90-degree angle as measured from the center line of the roadway.
Minn. R. agency 175, ch. 8810, OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DEVICES, pt. 8810.1100
Statutory Authority: MS s 173.01; 173.06