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Sign Regulations in Pinellas County, FL (2026)

4 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Pinellas County, Florida.

Verified from official government sources

Note: These county rules apply to unincorporated areas of Pinellas County. If you live within an incorporated city, that city's own rules apply: see the city list below.

Political Signs

Unincorporated Pinellas County treats yard political signs as temporary signs: event-related signs must come down within three days, and all others within 30 days of being erected.

Pinellas County Temporary Political Sign Duration

Some Restrictions

Pinellas County Code §§ 138-3751, 138-3753(l)(2)

Temporary sign shall mean any sign that is not a permanent sign, and shall include a sign formerly or commonly associated with a temporary use or structure, a temporary election sign, a temporary political sign... Duration for display of temporary sign. If a temporary sign pertains to an event, the temporary sign shall be removed within and by no later than three days after the event is conclud...

Digital Billboards

Unincorporated Pinellas County bars new off-premises signs, billboards, from adding electronic changeable message displays, with narrow exceptions for legally existing signs converted or removed under a county acceleration program. Where allowed, digital displays must hold a static image for a 60-second minimum dwell time.

Pinellas County Digital Billboard Ban

Significant Restrictions

Pinellas County Code § 138-3757(g), (l)

(g)Off-premises signs with electronic changeable message displays prohibited with limited exceptions. Other than legally existing off-premises signs which already have an electronic changeable message display, an off-premises sign may not have an electronic message display except as follows:(1)Conversion of existing off-premises signs to electronic changeable message display signs. Legally exis...

Window Signs

In unincorporated Pinellas County, temporary window signs on commercial and office buildings can cover up to 25% of the windowpane or 100 square feet, whichever is smaller.

Pinellas County Temporary Window Sign Area Cap

Some Restrictions

Pinellas County Code § 138-3753(i)

Temporary window signs. Such signs shall be allowed in areas classified as multifamily residential, office, commercial, industrial and public/semipublic. The maximum area of such signs in areas classified as office, commercial, industrial, and public/semipublic shall be 25 percent of windowpane area or 100 square feet, whichever is less. In multifamily residential areas, the area of temporary w...

Freeway-Facing Signs

Unincorporated Pinellas County only allows off-premises billboards on industrial-zoned land fronting I-275 or other federal-aid highways, capped at 50 feet tall and spaced at least 1,500 feet apart on I-275.

Pinellas County Freeway Billboard Location Standards

Significant Restrictions

Pinellas County Code § 138-3757(d), (e)(1)

Off-premises signs shall only be located on properties which abut federal-aid primary or interstate highways (FAP) and which are zoned C-2, CP, E-1, E-2, I or IPD, and designated as industrial by the future land use map... Height. The maximum height of such signs shall be 50 feet from ground level... Off-premises signs shall not be located within a 1,500-foot radius of another such sign on inte...

Sign Regulations by City in Pinellas County

1 cities in Pinellas County have their own sign regulations rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.

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