Except as provided in this article, no outdoor advertising sign, display, or device shall be erected or maintained within six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge of and visible as to informative content from the right-of-way of any road within the state road system designated and classified for purposes of allocation of federal highway funds as part of the federal-aid interstate or primary systems: Provided, however, That no outdoor advertising sign, display or device lawfully in existence adjacent to the federal-aid interstate or primary systems on September 1, 1965, which does not conform to the requirements of this article, shall be required to be removed until July 1, 1970: Provided further, That no other sign, display, or device lawfully erected which does not conform to the requirements of this article shall be required to be removed until the end of the fifth year after such sign, display or devices becomes nonconforming.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 17. Roads and Highways
Article 22. Outdoor Advertising
§17-22-3. Certain Outdoor Advertising Prohibited; When Removal Required
§17-22-4. General Restrictions as to Outdoor Advertising
§17-22-5. Payment of Compensation Upon Removal of Advertising Signs, Displays or Devices
§17-22-6. Purchase or Condemnation; Powers of Commissioner of Highways; Payment to Claimants
§17-22-7. Exceptions to Prohibited Signs; Standards for Excepted Signs
§17-22-9. Signs, Displays and Devices Providing Information for the Traveling Public; Location
§17-22-11. Enforcement of Provisions by Commissioner; Rules and Regulations
§17-22-12. Territory to Which Article Applies; Entries for Examinations and Surveys
§17-22-13. Licenses Required; Application; Expiration; Exceptions; Revocations; Judicial Review
§17-22-14. Bond of Out-of-State Licensee
§17-22-16. Permit Identification Number for Signs; Fastening to Signs
§17-22-17. Removal of Signs, etc., After Expiration or Revocation of Permit
§17-22-18. Removal, Defacing, etc., Signs Lawfully Within Highway Limits
§17-22-19. Consent of Property Owner for Erection
§17-22-20. Disposition of Fees
§17-22-21. Prohibited Signs Not to Be Allowed by Other Agencies, etc.
§17-22-22. Penalties; Signs in Violation of Article Declared Nuisance; Abatement
§17-22-23. Availability of Funds to Compensate for Required Removal of Signs, etc.