(a) No person, firm or corporation shall place, maintain or display upon or in view from any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which purports to be or is in imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view or interferes with the effectiveness of any official traffic control device or any railroad sign or signal and no person, firm or corporation shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit, upon any highway any traffic sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising.
(b) The traffic authority having jurisdiction over any such highway is authorized, without notice, to cause any such prohibited sign, signal or marking to be removed as a public nuisance.
(1949 Rev., S. 2528.)
See Sec. 13a-124 re unauthorized signs.
Cited. 122 C. 518.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 14 - Motor Vehicles. Use of the Highway by Vehicles. Gasoline
Chapter 249 - Traffic Control and Highway Safety
Section 14-297. - Definitions.
Section 14-298. - Office of the State Traffic Administration.
Section 14-299. - Traffic control signals. Right turn on red.
Section 14-299a. - Traffic signal preemption devices. Penalty.
Section 14-299b. - Inoperative traffic control signal.
Section 14-300a. - Pedestrian street markings near housing projects for elderly persons.
Section 14-300b. - Pedestrian use of crosswalks and roadways.
Section 14-300c. - Pedestrian use of roads and sidewalks. Required to yield to emergency vehicle.
Section 14-300d. - Operator of a vehicle required to exercise due care to avoid pedestrian.
Section 14-300g. - Operation of golf carts. Equipment. Insurance.
Section 14-301. - Through ways. Stop signs.
Section 14-302. - “Yield” signs.
Section 14-303. - Designation of one-way streets.
Section 14-304. - Safety zones.
Section 14-305. - Bus stops and public service motor vehicle stands.
Section 14-306. - Taxi stands in front of hotels.
Section 14-307. - Parking restrictions. Regulations.
Section 14-307a. - Pedestrian safety zones. Regulations.
Section 14-308. - Loading and unloading.
Section 14-310. - Fraudulent or obstructive signs and signals.
Section 14-311a. - New certificate for increase in parking spaces.
Section 14-311b. - Traffic controls for certain parking areas and commercial establishments.
Section 14-312. - Regulations.
Section 14-314a. - Periodic review of traffic control signals and signs.
Section 14-314b. - Injury to or removal of traffic control devices, signs or lights.
Section 14-316 and 14-317. - Commissioners to serve without compensation; offices. Assistants.