If any person, except a public officer or official or a person acting under his direction or order, erects on any public highway a stop sign, traffic device, or traffic signal, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Source. 1945, 188:1, part 19:6. RSA 249:10. 1973, 528:130. 1981, 87:1, eff. April 20, 1981.