For Immediate Release: September 8, 2017
Contact: Heather Fair, Statewide Right-of-Way Chief, (907)465-6954, heather.fair@alaska.gov
(JUNEAU, Alaska) – With political campaigns underway across the state the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) is reminding Alaskans that the use of public right of ways for political advertising is prohibited.
In 1998, Alaskans overwhelmingly voted to keep the state free from outdoor advertising. Alaska statutes and regulations address unauthorized signs both within and along the State’s public right of ways including parked vehicles displaying such signs and signs on private property legible from the main-traveled way.
Signs placed within the State’s public right of ways are prohibited. This applies to vehicles parked in right of ways that are used