Terms Used In Iowa Code 306B.2

  • Advertising device: means any outdoor sign, display, device, figure, painting, drawing, message, placard, poster, billboard, or any other device designed, intended, or used to advertise or inform, for which remuneration is paid or earned in exchange for its erection, display, or existence by any person, and which is visible from the traveled portion of any highway of the interstate system in this state. See Iowa Code 306B.1
  • Interstate system: means the system of highways as described in 23 U. See Iowa Code 306B.1
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
 An advertising device shall not be erected or maintained within six hundred sixty feet of the edge of the right-of-way of the interstate system except in areas zoned and used for commercial or industrial purposes under authority of law, regulation, or ordinance of this state or a political subdivision of this state. For purposes of this section, “areas zoned and used for commercial or industrial purposes” means an area zoned for commercial or industrial purposes in accordance with chapter 414, in the case of city zoning, or in accordance with chapter 335, in the case of county zoning, in which one or more commercial or industrial activities, as defined under the city or county zoning ordinance, are located.
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