Sign Regulations in Hialeah, FL (2026)
4 verified sign regulations for Hialeah, Florida, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.
Verified from official government sources
Political Signs
Hialeah treats political campaign signs as a 'specific purpose sign' under Sec. 74-148(c)(3), capping them at 8 square feet and 2 feet in height, one per lot or per street frontage per candidate. Every sign must come down within 30 days of the candidate's withdrawal, elimination or the election itself, no matter how long it has already been up.
Hialeah Political Campaign Sign Rules
Some RestrictionsHialeah Code of Ordinances Sec. 74-148(c)(3)
(3) Political campaign signs: Number (maximum) 1 per lot or 1 per frontage on each right-of-way for each candidate. Area (maximum) 8 square feet. Height (maximum) 2 feet. Time limit: Political signs are subject to subsection (b) of this section; provided, however, that regardless of the date of installation, signs must be removed within 30 days after one of the following events: withdrawal date...
Digital Billboards
On-premise LED signs in Hialeah are confined to industrial and commercial property with 100 feet of frontage, restricted to three commercial corridors, and may only advertise the business on that same property. Sec. 74-149 bans third-party advertising outright and limits operating hours to 6:00 a.m. through midnight.
Hialeah LED & Digital Sign Rules
Significant RestrictionsHialeah Code of Ordinances Sec. 74-149(c), (f)
(c)Permitted signs. LED signs, in general, shall only be allowed on property zoned industrial or on property zoned commercial. Free-standing LED signs or LED wall signs, as provided for in this section, shall only be allowed on property having a frontage of at least 100 feet on a public right-of-way. LED signs shall only advertise the business located on the property where the sign is located. ...
Window Signs
Hialeah's sign code caps most wall-mounted signage at ten percent of a building's facade, but window signs get a specific carve-out. Under Sec. 74-218(2), window and door signs escape that ten-percent ceiling entirely once the display windows or doors sit at least 50 feet back from any right-of-way or other public way, a rule the planning and zoning division applies citywide outside the HDUC and Palm Avenue corridor districts.
Hialeah Window Sign Coverage Limits
Some RestrictionsHialeah Code of Ordinances Sec. 74-218(2)
c.Maximum area. There shall be permitted ten percent of each building wall as sign area. The wall area shall be calculated as a vertical plane. Display and service windows, entrances and stairways shall be calculated as part of the wall area. ... h.Other. Window signs are excluded from the ten-percent limitation when the display windows and doors are set back a minimum of 50 feet from a right-o...
Freeway-Facing Signs
Off-site billboards are banned everywhere in Hialeah except through the billboard replacement program in Sec. 74-150, which lets owners of existing legal nonconforming billboards facing the Palmetto Expressway, State Road 112 or I-75 relocate or rebuild them, capped at 672 square feet per face, without ever increasing the citywide billboard count.
Hialeah Palmetto Expressway Billboard Rules
Significant RestrictionsHialeah Code of Ordinances Sec. 74-150(a), (g), (h)
(a)Purpose. The purpose and intent of the billboard replacement program is to allow traditional and/or digital billboards within city boundaries facing the Palmetto Expressway, State Road 112 and facing that portion of I-75 that extends in an east-west direction, to substitute unsightly and unsafe roof-top or traditional billboards that possess legal nonconforming status, notwithstanding the pr...
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