Section 200.04. Prohibited signs and signals.

 

(1)  No person may erect, cause to be erected, permit to be erected, or maintain any advertising, warning, route, guide, information, or regulatory sign or signal within the limits of any highway except as authorized in s. Trans 200.02 , 200.03 , 200.05 or 200.06 .

(2)  No person may place or maintain nor may any public authority permit upon any highway any official traffic control device bearing thereon any commercial advertising except as authorized in s. Trans 200.06 . (See ss. 346.41 and 349.09 , Stats.)

(3)  No local authority shall place or maintain any stop sign or traffic control signal which stops or regulates the movement of traffic on or entering the state trunk highway system or the urban extensions of the marked routes thereof, designated by the statutes as connecting highways, without the approval of the department.

History: 1-2-56 ; am. (1), Register, June, 1959, No. 42 , eff. 7-1-59; renum. from Hy 10.04 and am., Register, July, 1980, No. 295 , eff. 8-1-80; am. (1) and (2), Register, March, 1984, No. 339 , eff. 4-1-84.