Allentown, PA Holiday Decorations: Lawn Ornament Rules (2026)

D lists the categories of signs and displays exempt from the sign article's regulations entirely, alongside items like street address numbers, cemetery markers, official government flags, and murals with no commercial message. Holiday decorations sit in that same exempt list at D(3): they don't need a sign permit, aren't measured against wall-sign or freestanding-sign area limits, and aren't restricted to particular zones the way most attached and freestanding signs are under §§ 660-98 through 660-103. The exemption is conditional, though: decorations must be removed within 30 days of the holiday to which they pertain, so a lit reindeer display or inflatable pumpkin has a hard 30-day clock that starts running on the holiday itself, not on the date it was installed.

D (capped at two square feet) or be removed as a nonconforming, unpermitted display. Because this exemption lives inside the sign article of Chapter 660, the Zoning Officer's general enforcement and penalty authority under § 660-123 reaches a decoration left up past its 30-day limit the same way it reaches any other unpermitted sign.