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Adopt-A-Highway
Program: Quick Synopsis
- Any interested municipality or county may adopt its own program for these activities.
- MaineDOT will have limited involvement.
- Any sign erected to recognize participating organizations must have a permit from the MaineDOT.
- Each sign shall not exceed 4 square feet in area., and the cumulative total for each full sign assembly may not exceed 50 square feet.
- Each municipality can erect up to four full sign assemblies within its boundaries to announce the existence of this Program in the Town.
- Each sign assembly will be installed and maintained by the town.
- MaineDOT will have final responsibility and authority to determine the specific size and location of any sign assembly.
- This Program does NOT apply to the Interstate or a fully-controlled access highway
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Beautiful sign in Monmouth. Up to four of these sign
“units” can exist per town in Maine |
Here is the basic process which any interested town will
have to follow:
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Decide to establish a Program and set up your local rules, preferably
in ordinance form.
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Provide those rules to the Boy Scouts, or the Kiwanis Club,
or any interested group who wants to "adopt" a highway
in town.
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Submit application from the Town to the MaineDOT for permission
to erect these signs (even on local roads).
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Design, purchase, install, and maintain a sign or sign assembly
(for multiple groups) anywhere in town (limit is 4 per town).
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Monitor groups so that safety is number 1 while working off
the road.
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