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§ 14-156. Injuring fixtures and other property of
electric-power companies.
It shall
be unlawful for any person willfully and wantonly, and without the consent of
the owner, to take down, remove, injure, obstruct, displace or destroy any line
erected or constructed for the transmission of electrical current, or any poles,
towers, wires, conduits, cables, insulators or any support upon which wires or
cables may be suspended, or any part of any such line or appurtenances or
apparatus connected therewith, or to sever any wire or cable thereof, or in any
manner to interrupt the transmission of electrical current over and along any
such line, or to take down, remove, injure or destroy any house, shop, building
or other structure or machinery connected with or necessary to the use of any
line erected or constructed for the transmission of electrical current, or to
wantonly or willfully cause injury to any of the property mentioned in this
section by means of fire. Any person violating any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor. (1907, c. 919; C.S., s. 4328; 1993, c.
539, s. 94; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
§ 136-32. Other than official signs
prohibited.
No unauthorized person shall erect or
maintain upon any highway any warning or direction sign, marker, signal or light
or imitation of any official sign, marker, signal or light erected under the
provisions of G.S. 136-30, except in cases of emergency. No person shall erect or maintain upon
any highway any traffic or highway sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial
advertising: Provided, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit
the erection or maintenance of signs, markers, or signals bearing thereon the
name of an organization authorized to erect the same by the Department of
Transportation or by any local authority referred to in G.S. 136-31. Any person who shall violate any of the
provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The Department of Transportation may
remove any signs erected without authority. (1921, c. 2, s. 9(b); C.S., s. 3846(r);
1927, c. 148, ss. 56, 58; 1933, c. 172, s. 17; 1957, c. 65, s. 11; 1973, c. 507,
s. 5; 1977, c. 464, s. 7.1; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 1030, s. 39; 1993, c. s.
981; 1994, Ex. Sess., c. 24, s. 14(c).)
19A NCAC 02E .0415 Advertising signs within right of way
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect or
place any advertising or other sign, except regulation traffic and warning signs
approved by the Department of Transportation, on any highway or the right of way
thereof, or so as to overhang the right of way, or to permit the erection or
placing of any advertising or other sign, as herein prohibited, on a n y highway
right of way which is situated over any land owned, rented, leased or claimed by
such person, firm or corporation. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
other corporation that has erected, or placed, or permitted to be erected or
placed, any advertising or other sign, as herein prohibited, or for any person,
firm or corporation owning, renting, leasing or claiming any land over which a
highway or highway right of way is situated, and on which highway or highway
right of way any advertising or other sign has been erected or placed, to allow
such advertising or other signs to remain o n state highway or right of way
thereof. History Note: Authority
Eff. July 1, 1978.