Section 17.60.995. Definitions.

In this chapter  
		(1) "activity" means a tourist-oriented activity, specific service activity, or RCIA;  
		(2) "commissioner" means the commissioner of the department;  
		(3) "department" means the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities;  
		(4) "driveway or intersecting road" means the road that a motorist takes from a highway with a tourist sign to the activity associated with the sign;  
		(5) "highway rest stop or pullout" has the meaning given in 17 AAC 05.990;  
		(6) "location" means a 2,500 foot segment of highway right-of-way bisected by a driveway or intersecting road;  
		(7) "logo" means a square design used by a specific service activity to distinguish itself from similar specific service activities;  
		(8) "logo panel" means a highway sign and posts on which logos may be mounted;  
		(9) "logo sign" means a logo and a logo panel consisting of a sign on which logos for gas, food, lodging, and camping are mounted; a logo sign consists of a logo and a logo panel;  
		(10) "RCIA" means recreational and cultural interest area;  
		(11) "recreational and cultural interest area" or "RCIA" has the meaning given the term at 17 AAC 60.205;  
		(12) "sign contractor" means a person included in the list described in 17 AAC 60.910(b);  
		(13) "specific service activity" means a commercial activity that offers gas, food, lodging, or camping;  
		(14) "symbol" means a square icon that accurately conveys the nature of its associated service or activity but does not reflect the name or a logo for the service or activity;  
		(15) "TODS" means a tourist-oriented directional sign;  
		(16) "tourist-oriented activity" means a motorist service, tourist attraction, or business of significant interest to the traveling public; "tourist-oriented activity" does not include an RCIA;  
		(17) "tourist-oriented directional sign" or "TODS" means a sign erected in a highway right-of-way for the purpose of alerting the traveling public to a nearby tourist-oriented activity;  
		(18) "tourist sign" means a TODS, logo sign, RCIA sign, or traveler information kiosk;  
		(19) "trailblazing sign" means a sign that guides a motorist traveling from a sign regulated under this chapter to the activity or RCIA represented on the regulated sign;  
		(20) "traveler information kiosk" means an area in a highway rest stop or pullout with a structure housing traveler information about businesses, services, and activities in the local area;  
		(21) "urban portion of an organized borough" means a location characterized by one or more of the following:  
			(A) dense residential or commercial development;  
			(B) roads used primarily for short local transportation as opposed to long distance through traffic;  
			(C) numerous intersecting roads and driveways;  
			(D) traffic signals.  

Authorities

19.05.010;19.05.020;19.05.040;19.25.105;19.25.200;44.42.030

Notes

Authority

AS 19.05.010 AS 19.05.020 AS 19.05.040 AS 19.25.105 AS 19.25.200 AS 44.42.030 ________________________

History

Eff. 5/18/97, Register 142; am 3/1/2002, Register 161