Section 8-716 - Signs for which permit may not be issued. - Maryland Statutes

§ 8-716. Signs for which permit may not be issued.
 

The Administration may not issue a permit under this part for any outdoor sign if: 

(1) The area of its advertising surface, as required to be specified in the application, exceeds 1,000 square feet; 

(2) It might affect adversely the safety of public travel on any State highway by dangerously obstructing the clear view of the highway by the driver of a motor vehicle on it; 

(3) It is lighted in a way that makes it dangerous to drive a motor vehicle on a State highway; or 

(4) It is located, as to any intersection at grade of a State highway with another highway or with a railroad: 

(i) At any point where it obstructs or interferes with the view of a train or other vehicle approaching the intersection; or 

(ii) At any other point where it is dangerous to the public in any way. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 56, § 204; 1977, ch. 13, § 2; ch. 545.]