Section 1.12. Sign maintenance.

 

(1)  The standard statewide rustic road sign and the numerical identification placard shall be erected at all important public entrance points to a rustic road sign as mutually agreed upon by the maintaining authority and the department. Beneath the standard statewide rustic road sign, affixed to the same sign post, shall be the standard placard denoting the numerical identification of the rustic road within the statewide system of rustic roads.

(2)  At each terminus of the rustic road an additional standardized placard denoting the length, in miles, of the rustic road shall be affixed to the post supporting the rustic road sign and placed below both the rustic road sign and the placard denoting the numerical identification of the individual rustic road.

(3)  The rustic road marking signs may be placed on existing information or highway identification sign posts but shall not be placed on any regulatory or warning sign posts.

(4)  

(a) The department, at its own expense, shall furnish and install the initial rustic roads marking signs needed on all officially designated rustic roads.

(b) Each year, at the department's request, the maintaining authority for a rustic road shall inventory all the rustic roads marking signs on its rustic road. The inventory shall be sent to the department and shall state the number of missing or damaged rustic roads marking signs on its rustic road and shall identify the location of those missing or damaged signs that should be replaced. After receiving this inventory, the department, at its own expense, shall furnish and install the needed replacement rustic roads marking signs.

(c) The maintaining authority for a rustic road shall furnish, install and maintain all other guide or warning signs, signals, markings or devices on its rustic road at its own expense.

(5)  All informational, regulatory, warning and identification signs shall be erected and maintained as necessary, in accordance with chs. 86 and 349 , Stats., and ch. Trans 200 .

History: Cr. Register, May, 1981, No. 305 , eff. 6-1-81; am. (3), r. and recr. (4), Register, February, 1988, No. 386 , eff. 3-1-88.