Bill Text: NJ S1247 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires DOT to develop common design for signs that indicate historic district or site.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced in the Senate, Referred to Senate Transportation Committee [S1247 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2024-S1247-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
221st LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Senator JAMES BEACH
District 6 (Burlington and Camden)
Co-Sponsored by:
Senator Diegnan
SYNOPSIS
Requires DOT to develop common design for signs that indicate historic district or site.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.
An Act concerning certain roadway signs for historic district or site and supplementing Title 27 of the Revised Statutes.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. The Commissioner of Transportation shall, in consultation with the Division of Parks and Forestry in the Department of Environmental Protection, the Historic Sites Council in the Department of Environmental Protection, the New Jersey Historic Trust in the Department of Community Affairs, and the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of State, develop a common design for roadway signs that indicate a historic district or historic site, which shall include, but not be limited to, an identifiable historic symbol to indicate a historic time period, event, or war that relates to the historic site or historic district.
b. The signs shall be designed, fabricated, located, and installed in accordance with the standards and guidance of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets and Highways issued by the Federal Highway Administration.
c. Following the effective date of this act, P.L. , c. (C. ) (pending before the legislature as this bill), whenever a State entity replaces an existing roadway sign that indicates a historic district or historic site, the new sign shall conform to the common design, fabrication, and location elements required by this section.
d. As used in this section:
"Historic district" means one or more historic sites and intervening or surrounding property significantly affecting or affected by the quality and character of the historic site or sites.
"Historic site" means any real property, man-made structure, natural object or configuration or any portion or group of the foregoing of historical, archeological, cultural, scenic, or architectural significance.
2. This act shall take effect immediately.
STATEMENT
This bill requires the Commissioner of Transportation,
in consultation with the Division of Parks and Forestry in the Department of
Environmental Protection, the Historic Sites Council in the Department of
Environmental Protection, the New Jersey Historic Trust in the Department of
Community Affairs, and the Division of Travel and Tourism in the Department of
State, to develop a common design for roadway signs that indicate a historic
site or historic district,
which is to include, but not
be limited to, an identifiable historic symbol to indicate a historic time
period, event, or war that relates to the historic site or historic district.
The signs are to be designed, fabricated, located, and installed in accordance
with the standards and guidance of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control
Devices for Streets and Highways issued by the Federal Highway Administration. The
bill further provides that whenever a State entity replaces an existing roadway
sign that indicates a historic district or historic site, the new sign must
conform to the common design, fabrication, and location elements required by
the bill.