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The place names, route numbers and distances shown are the examples used in the federal reference drawing. On the road, this sign carries the local ones.
MUTCD I13-1 · General information signs
Emergency notification information sign
What it means
Emergency notification information sign
What to do about it
It is a guide sign: guide signs give directions, distances and services, and reading them early keeps you out of last-minute lane changes. (MUTCD I13-1.)
Practice this on the real test format
Signs are the part of the DMV written test people fail on, because reading them is a skill rather than a fact to memorize. Aprobify drills all 1034 of them, and tells you why each answer is what it is.
Get the appSign designations follow the MUTCD and the California MUTCD published by Caltrans; meanings are checked against the California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025). Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
Signs in the same family
These sit next to it in the general information signs series — the ones most easily mixed up with it.
- I3-9 Vehicle ferry terminal location or direction
- I3-10 Passenger-only ferry terminal location or direction
- I3-10P Ferry plaque for use with other transportation signs
- I4-1 Library location or direction
- I13-2 Push to exit instruction sign
- I20-1 Acknowledgement sign for project or funding recognition
