39:4-183.3 - Display of unauthorized traffic signs - New Jersey Statutes

39:4-183.3.  Display of unauthorized traffic signs
    No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway, any unauthorized traffic sign, device or other contrivance which purports to be  or is an imitation of or of such a nature as to be mistaken for an official  traffic sign or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides  from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic sign and  no person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit upon  any highway, any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon or its support, any  commercial advertising.

    This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type that cannot be mistaken for official signs.

     L.1941, c. 345, p. 903, s. 4.