177.860 Standards for billboard advertising. The commissioner of the Department of Highways shall prescribe by regulations reasonable standards for the advertising devices hereinafter enumerated, designed to protect the safety of and to guide the users of the highways and otherwise to achieve the objectives set forth in KRS 177.850, and the erection and maintenance of any of the following advertising devices, if they comply with the regulations, shall not be deemed a violation of KRS 177.830 to 177.890: (1) An advertising device which is to be erected or maintained on property for the purpose of setting forth or indicating: (a) The name and address of the owner, lessee, or occupant of the property; or (b) The name or type of business or profession conducted on the property; or (c) Information required or authorized by law to be posted or displayed on the advertising device; (2) An advertising device which is not visible from any traveled portion of the highway; (3) An advertising device indicating the sale or leasing of the property upon which it is placed; (4) Advertising devices which otherwise comply with the applicable zoning ordinances and regulations of any county or city, and which are to be located in a commercially or industrially developed area, in which the commissioner of highways determines, in exercise of his sound discretion, that the location of the advertising devices is compatible with the safety and convenience of the traveling public. Effective: July 14, 1992 History: Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 402, sec. 3, effective July 14, 1992. -- Amended 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 424, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1982. -- Created 1960 Ky. Acts ch. 175, sec. 4, effective June 16, 1960.