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Wash. Rev. Code § 47.42.030 (2025)

Signs visible from interstate, primary, or scenic systems restricted

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Except as permitted under this chapter, no person shall erect or maintain a sign which is visible from the main traveled way of the interstate system, the primary system, or the scenic system. In case a highway or a section of highway is both a part of the primary system and the scenic system, only those signs permitted along the scenic system shall be erected or maintained.
[ 1971 ex.s. c 62 s 3; 1961 c 96 s 3.]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1973–2016 · leading case: State v. Lotze, 593 P.2d 811 (Wash. 1979).
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State v. Lotze, 593 P.2d 811 (Wash. 1979). · cites it 4× “The sole issue presented is whether RCW 47.42.030 1 and .040 2 unconstitutionally infringe upon appellants' First Amendment rights of free speech.”
State v. Yard Birds, Inc., 513 P.2d 1030 (Wash. Ct. App. 1973). · cites it 2× “96, § 3, formerly RCW 47.42.030. The Scenic Vistas Act amends this to read: “Except as permitted under this chapter, no person shall erect or maintain a sign which is visible from the main traveled way of the interstate system, .”
State v. Hamilton, 604 P.2d 1008 (Wash. Ct. App. 1979). · cites it 2× “RCW 47.42.030 prohibits any person from erecting or maintaining a sign that is "visible from the main traveled way of the interstate system".”
Sun Outdoor Advert., LLC v. Washington State Dep't Of Transp., 381 P.3d 169 (Wash. Ct. App. 2016). “Under the Federal-Aid Highway Act, signs “may be erected and maintained within six hundred and sixty feet of the nearest edge of the right-of-way within areas adjacent to the Interstate and primary systems which are zoned industrial or commercial under authority of State law, or…”
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