12.20.050 Permit—Not required for designated acts.
A. When so placed or done as not to constitute a traffic hazard nor interfere with normal highway maintenance, the following things are authorized in a county highway without a permit:
1. Rural mail boxes of a type approved by the Postmaster, with or without a sign attached thereto, or to the mail box support, designating only the name and address in letters and figures not exceeding four inches in height, of the person served by such mailbox;
2. Signs erected by public agencies and public utilities when reasonably required to designate the location of a public facility, or a public utility facility, or to promote public safety or other public purpose;
3. Historical markers, signs, or monuments, the erection of which has been first approved by the board of supervisors of the county;
4. Planting in a parkway area behind a curb or flow line, when so maintained as not to hinder or impede pedestrian traffic;
5. Planting of crops when such crops are separated from the maintained portion of the highway by a fence for which a permit has been issued under the ordinance codified in this chapter.
B. The road commissioner may, in the manner provided in Section 12.20.160, require and enforce the removal of any of the things authorized by subsection A of this section, when, in his opinion, any of said things are so placed or done as to constitute a traffic hazard, or to interfere with normal highway maintenance, or otherwise to violate any of the conditions under which said things are authorized. (Ord. 76-5 § 1, 1976)