Ariz. Admin. Code § 12-5-1101

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section R12-5-1101 - Policy; Use of Land

A. The Department may issue Special Land Use Permits, as a non-exclusive right to use the land and not as a grant of any vested or unvested interest in the land, for any purpose otherwise authorized by statute or law for leases and other grants, including without limitation, grazing, agriculture, commercial, homesite, mineral exploration, and recreation.

B. Advertising displays and signage on State Trust Land. The erection or maintenance on State Trust Land of advertising displays and signage, without the Department's issuance of a permit, is unauthorized and shall be deemed a trespass, except as to the following:

1. Official notices or advertisements posted by or under the direction of any public or court officer in the performance of his official duties;

2. Danger, precautionary and information signs erected by officials of the federal government or officials of the state or any subdivision thereof, or any non-profit organization in the state warning of the conditions of travel on a highway, or of forest fires, or road symbols, or speed limits, and including all civil defense directional signs;

3. Highway markers or signs relating to any city, town, village, historic place, or shrine;

4. Notice of any railroad, bridge, ferry, or other transportation or transmission company necessary for the direction or safety of the public;

6. Signs erected by Red Cross or other organizations that serve to direct the public during emergency-related events; and

7. Any other circumstances approved in advance by the Department.

C. Identification of authorized advertising displays. Each advertising display erected or maintained under a permit issued pursuant to these rules and regulations shall, for convenient identification, have the serial number of such permit marked or painted thereon.

D. Restrictions on advertising displays and signage.

1. No advertising display or signage shall be permitted which, in the opinion of the Department, would mar the landscape, hide road intersections or crossings, or is otherwise objectionable. At any time, the Department may determine that signage or displays may impose unsafe or imprudent risk to the public or other authorized uses of State Trust Land and may prohibit placement or require modification or removal.

2. No advertising display or signage shall be affixed to or painted on any tree or rock situated on State Trust Land or on any other natural object on such land.

3. All advertising displays and signage shall conform to applicable state laws and local ordinances or regulations.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R12-5-1101

Original rule, Art. XI, Subchapter B, Ch. II (Supp. 76-4). Emergency amendment filed September 26, 1990, adopted effective September 27, 1990, pursuant to A.R.S. 41-1026, valid for only 90 days (Supp. 90-3). Emergency expired. Section R12-5-1101renumbered from Section R12-5-241 (Supp. 93-3). Amended by final rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 2360, effective 8/19/2024.