2021 Oregon Revised Statutes
Chapter 377 - Highway Beautification; Motorist Information Signs
Section 377.833 - Public notifications.


(2) The Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Oregon Department of Emergency Management, the Department of State Police, the Secretary of State and owners of digital billboards, shall prepare a written public notification plan. In preparing the plan, the Department of Transportation shall address:
(a) The criteria to be applied in determining when it is appropriate to request that an owner of a digital billboard display a public notification.
(b) The procedures used to determine the expiration of a notification and to recall the request once the information is no longer needed. [2011 c.562 §7; 2021 c.539 §30]
Note: The amendments to 377.833 by section 30, chapter 539, Oregon Laws 2021, become operative July 1, 2022. See section 155, chapter 539, Oregon Laws 2021. The text that is operative until July 1, 2022, is set forth for the user’s convenience. (1) The Department of Transportation shall work together with the Travel Information Council, the Office of Emergency Management, the Department of State Police, the Secretary of State and owners of digital billboards to develop a public notification plan for the purpose of using digital billboards to display notifications to the traveling public related to civic activities and public safety. Public notifications include but are not limited to information about the Government Waste Hotline established under ORS 177.170, elections, voter registration, Amber Alerts and natural disasters and other emergencies.
(2) The Department of Transportation, in coordination with the Office of Emergency Management, the Department of State Police, the Secretary of State and owners of digital billboards, shall prepare a written public notification plan. In preparing the plan, the Department of Transportation shall address:
(a) The criteria to be applied in determining when it is appropriate to request that an owner of a digital billboard display a public notification.
(b) The procedures used to determine the expiration of a notification and to recall the request once the information is no longer needed.

Structure 2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

2021 Oregon Revised Statutes

Volume : 10 - Highways, Military

Chapter 377 - Highway Beautification; Motorist Information Signs

Section 377.050 - Consent of department for removal of trees along state highways.

Section 377.100 - Study of highway system; designation of historic and scenic highways.

Section 377.105 - Effect of designation as historic and scenic highway.

Section 377.505 - Definitions for ORS 377.505 to 377.540.

Section 377.510 - Signs visible from state highways regulated; junkyards prohibited; exceptions.

Section 377.521 - Status of previously designated scenic areas.

Section 377.605 - Definitions for ORS 377.605 to 377.655.

Section 377.615 - Director’s authority to promulgate regulations, enter into agreements with federal government.

Section 377.620 - Restrictions on maintaining or establishing junkyard along highway.

Section 377.625 - Screening junkyard located in restricted area.

Section 377.630 - Removing junkyard from restricted area.

Section 377.635 - Junkyard in violation of restrictions declared a public nuisance; authority to abate; when junk placed on state highway right of way.

Section 377.645 - Expenditure of moneys to screen or relocate junkyards prior to availability of federal matching funds.

Section 377.650 - Personal property on state highway.

Section 377.653 - Personal property under state highway bridge; rules.

Section 377.655 - Rules for removal and disposition of signs and property in violation of ORS 377.650.

Section 377.705 - Policy.

Section 377.707 - Identifying location of signs on construction plans; repair or replacement of damaged signs.

Section 377.708 - Effect on certain signs of transfer of jurisdiction over state highway.

Section 377.710 - Definitions for ORS 377.700 to 377.844; rules.

Section 377.712 - Issuance of permits for certain preexisting signs.

Section 377.713 - Compensation following partial or total loss of outdoor advertising sign; rules.

Section 377.720 - Prohibited signs; exceptions.

Section 377.723 - Affidavit of city or county necessary for issuance of sign permit; requirements of affidavit.

Section 377.725 - Permit; application; fee; cancellation; rules.

Section 377.730 - License for business of maintaining or erecting signs; fee; application; revocation; suspension.

Section 377.735 - Exemptions from sign permit requirements; historic signs; rules.

Section 377.737 - Giving or receiving compensation or value for signs; rules.

Section 377.745 - Limitation on form and size of signs.

Section 377.750 - Spacing between signs.

Section 377.753 - Permits for outdoor advertising signs; rules.

Section 377.756 - Permits for signs erected by city or unincorporated community.

Section 377.757 - Requirements for signs authorized by ORS 377.756; payment of cost of sign.

Section 377.759 - Issuance of relocation credits for removal of outdoor advertising signs from scenic byway; rules.

Section 377.762 - Issuance of relocation credits for removal of sign.

Section 377.763 - Consolidation of relocation credits.

Section 377.765 - Status of previously existing signs; removal upon payment of compensation.

Section 377.767 - Relocation of existing outdoor advertising sign; conditions.

Section 377.768 - Effect of relocation permit on existing sign permit; duty of director.

Section 377.770 - Signs in protected, commercial or industrial areas.

Section 377.775 - Removal procedure for noncomplying signs; ownership issues at hearing; disposition of removed signs; costs of removal.

Section 377.777 - Action to enjoin person from violation of ORS 377.700 to 377.844.

Section 377.780 - Removal of outdoor advertising signs; payment of compensation; value determinations.

Section 377.787 - Contracts to study traveler information needs; council to establish sign programs; rules.

Section 377.790 - Construction, maintenance and operation of tourist and motorist informational signs.

Section 377.795 - Allocation of costs of telephone informational system; webpage fee; disposition of receipts.

Section 377.800 - Tourist and motorist informational signs; logo signs; sign and travel plazas.

Section 377.805 - Form of tourist and motorist informational signs; use of logo signs.

Section 377.820 - Application for tourist or motorist informational sign permit; investigation; disposition.

Section 377.825 - Fees for sign applications, maintenance costs and reinstallation.

Section 377.831 - Application for digital billboard permit.

Section 377.833 - Public notifications.

Section 377.835 - Creation of Travel Information Council as semi-independent state agency; members; qualifications; appointment; terms; chairperson; quorum; executive director; rules.

Section 377.836 - Application of certain statutes to Travel Information Council.

Section 377.838 - Authority of executive director of Travel Information Council.

Section 377.839 - Authority of Travel Information Council.

Section 377.840 - Travel Information Council account; budget process; disposition of moneys received.

Section 377.841 - Roadside rest areas.

Section 377.842 - Refreshments at roadside rest areas; rules.

Section 377.844 - Enforcement of rules regarding health and safety.

Section 377.880 - Informational materials in roadside rest areas; rules.

Section 377.885 - Department of Transportation Human Trafficking Awareness Fund.

Section 377.887 - State Parks and Recreation Department Human Trafficking Awareness Fund.

Section 377.992 - Penalties; rules.