31-29-67. Spacing standards and criteria.
The standards and criteria for spacing of outdoor advertising authorized to be erected and maintained in zoned or unzoned commercial or industrial areas adjacent to the interstate and primary highway systems are:
(1)Within municipalities signs shall conform to any applicable building codes and ordinances relating to spacing except that no such sign may be located closer than one hundred feet from an existing off-premises sign on a state nonlimited access primary highway and no closer than five hundred feet from any existing off-premise sign on a limited access primary highway or on an interstate highway;
(2)Outside of municipalities no off-premise sign may be erected adjacent to a limited primary access highway or interstate highway closer than five hundred feet, nor adjacent to a nonlimited access highway closer than three hundred feet, to an existing off-premise sign;
(3)Neither inside nor outside of municipalities may any sign be erected or maintained in such a location as to prevent the driver of a vehicle from having an effective view of any official traffic control device applicable to the driver or to approaching, intersecting, or merging traffic and highways within five hundred feet of such sign; and
(4)Double-faced, back-to-back, and V-type signs shall be considered as a single sign structure for purposes of these usages.
The above spacing provisions do not apply to structures separated by buildings or other obstructions in such a manner that only one sign facing located within the above spacing distance is visible from the highway at any one time. The minimum distance between structures shall be measured along the nearest edge of the pavement between points directly opposite the signs along each side of the highway and applies only to structures located on the same side of the highway.
Source: SL 1977, ch 246, §5 (3); SL 1979, ch 202, §9; SL 2010, ch 145, §158.
Structure South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 31 - Highways and Bridges
Chapter 29 - Highway Beautification And Regulation Of Advertising
Section 31-29-1 - Billboards near cemetery--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 31-29-2 - Obstruction of highway or to vision--Violation as misdemeanor.
Section 31-29-12 - Rest areas and facilities--Commercial accommodations prohibited.
Section 31-29-60 - Compensation for removal of nonconforming signs--Federal contributions.
Section 31-29-61 - Legislative policy on outdoor advertising along interstate and primary highways.
Section 31-29-62 - Definition of terms.
Section 31-29-63.2 - Abandoned sign--Determination.
Section 31-29-63.3 - "Available for lease" and public service messages.
Section 31-29-63.4 - On-premise signs.
Section 31-29-65 - Size standards and criteria.
Section 31-29-66 - Lighting standards and criteria.
Section 31-29-67 - Spacing standards and criteria.
Section 31-29-67.1 - Maintenance of signs.
Section 31-29-69 - Blanket prohibition by local authority not authorized--Reasonableness required.
Section 31-29-71 - Permit required to maintain sign--Sign without permit as nuisance--Abatement.
Section 31-29-71.1 - Fee for permit--Exception.
Section 31-29-71.2 - Duration of permit--Renewal--Fee in lieu of property tax.
Section 31-29-71.3 - Disposition of fee revenue.
Section 31-29-71.4 - Certain signs exempt from permit requirement.
Section 31-29-71.5 - Municipal signs exempt from permit requirement.
Section 31-29-71.6 - Conforming permit.
Section 31-29-71.7 - Nonconforming permit.
Section 31-29-71.12 - Criteria for outdoor advertising--Zoned commercial adjacent to primary system.
Section 31-29-71.13 - Commercial or industrial activity.
Section 31-29-71.14 - Applications for permits--Forms provided.
Section 31-29-72.2 - Priority in removal of advertising.
Section 31-29-73 - Takings requiring compensation.
Section 31-29-73.1 - Highway fund used to pay for signs removed.
Section 31-29-80.1 - Directional sign program.
Section 31-29-80.2 - Funding of directional sign program.
Section 31-29-80.3 - Standards for directional signs submitted to federal government--Rules.
Section 31-29-80.4 - Procedure for authorizing directional signs--Compliance with rules.
Section 31-29-80.5 - Attraction defined.
Section 31-29-82 - Repair of sign permitted until actual removal--Maximum expenditure.