Municipal elections campaign signs are popping up around the Kenai Peninsula.
Jill Reese with the Department of Transportation says candidates should keep a few guidelines in mind for signs along the state maintained highways.
Reese: “No political signs in the right of way at all and if we see political signs in the right of way, our maintenance and operations sections can go and pick those signs up and throw them away. If there are signs in residential yards, those are considered free speech so we don’t take those. If there are signs that commercial businesses would like to display, the statute says that they need to be 660 feet from the state’s right of way.”
Those guidelines are consistent throughout Alaska.
Reese: “Alaskans overwhelmingly voted in 1998 to keep the state free from what are billboards in the states so in order to keep the state free from the signs the statute was instituted and that includes political advertising.”
The Kenai Peninsula is included in the Central Region and anyone with questions can reach that Anchorage office at 907-269-0700.
