Iredell County, NC Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Permit required
- No
- Location
- On-premises only
- Max number
- 1 sign
- Max copy area
- 3 square feet
- Sign setback
- 5 feet from property line/right-of-way
- Enforcement
- $100/day civil penalty, Code section 1-7(b)
Summary
A home-based business in unincorporated Iredell County may display exactly one on-premises sign under Section 6.6's Table 6.1, capped at three square feet of copy area, with no zoning permit required for that single sign, a noticeably smaller allowance than every other on-premises sign category listed in the same table.
Table 6.1 Signs permitted in all Zoning Districts Type Permit Required On or Off Premises Max. Number Max. Copy Area Max. Display Time Home Occupations No On 1 3
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 32).
Full Breakdown
5(C) measures ordinary wall signage in square feet up to fifty. That three-square-foot allowance is dramatically smaller than what the same table gives a residential development or recreation facility, which can post two sign faces per entrance at up to thirty-two square feet, or an off-premises directional sign for a non-residential use in a residential district, capped at nine square feet per sign. 7 that do require a permit. 5 still apply on top of the table: no sign may sit closer than five feet to a property line or road right-of-way, and any freestanding sign is capped at ten feet in height unless the specific use states otherwise.
A home occupation sign therefore has to be small, on the property, unpermitted, and set back like every other sign in the county, while giving up any off-premises advertising option that other uses in the table are allowed.
Violations & Fines
A home occupation sign that exceeds the one-sign, three-square-foot allowance in Table 6.1, or that is placed off-premises, or that ignores the five-foot setback in Section 6.5, is a sign-ordinance violation under Appendix A of the Code of Ordinances: Code section 1-7(b) sets a $100 civil penalty for each day the oversized or misplaced sign remains up, rather than treating it as a criminal offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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