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Outdoor Lighting in Montgomery, AL (2026)

1 verified outdoor lighting rules for Montgomery, Alabama, sourced directly from the municipal code and official government pages.

Verified from official government sources

Billboard Lighting

Montgomery, Alabama bans flashing, intermittent or moving lights on outdoor advertising structures next to interstate and primary highways under City Code Appendix C, Article IX, Section 3.b, with a narrow carve-out for public-service displays like time, date, temperature, weather or news. Billboard lighting also cannot glare into traffic or obscure an official traffic signal.

Montgomery, Alabama Billboard Lighting Standards

Some Restrictions

Montgomery Zoning Ordinance (City Code App. C), Art. IX, Sec. 3.b

Lighting.(1)Signs shall not be erected or maintained which contain, include or are illuminated by any flashing, intermittent or moving lights, except those giving public service information such as, but not limited to time, date, temperature, weather or news.(2)Signs shall not be erected or maintained which are not effectively shielded so as to prevent beams or rays of light from being directed...