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13 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA SESSION 2011 SESSION LAW 2011-408 SENATE BILL 315 AN ACT TO PERMIT CAMPAIGN SIGNS IN HIGHWAY RIGHTS-OF-WAY WITH REASONABLE TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER RESTRICTIONS. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: SECTION 1. G.S. 136-32 reads as rewritten: "§ 136-32. .Regulation of suns. ~ Commercial Si ns. - 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 ^a~~°~*~^~^R: ^r political advertisin ,apt as provided in subsections (bZ through (e) of this section: 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 ""may-authority or allowed to remain beyond the deadline established in subsection Lb) of this section. Compliant Political Suns Permitted. -During the period be ig nning on the 30~' day before the be~innin~ date of "one-stop" early voting under G.S_163-227.2 and ending on the with subsection (dl of this section and must be removed by the end of the period prescribed in No sign shall be lamer than 864 square inches. No sign shall obscure or replace another si xi. ~ Penalties for Unlawful Removal of Suns. - It is a Class 3 misdemeanor ~teal_ deface_ vandalize_ or unlawfully remove a political sign that is lawfully x this section. ,~ Application Within Municipalities. - nn r;ohrc_nf-way of ctreetc located within the coroorate limits of a municipality and maintained suns on the rights-of--way of streets located within a municipality and maintained IBII{IIIII highway, No sign shall be closer than three feet from the edge of the pavement of the road. No sign shall obscure motorist visibility at an intersection. No sign shall be higher than 42 inches above the edge of the pavement of the road.