Scranton, PA Home Business: Signage Rules (2026)

' One of those entries, 'Flag, Commercial,' defines a commercial flag as a banner or pennant made of, or looking like, fabric that is hung so it flows in the wind and that carries a commercial message. For most lots the table allows two such flags with a combined face of up to 40 square feet per side, but the same row carves out a smaller allowance specifically for a permitted home occupation: 15 square feet per side, still capped at two flags per lot.

Because the entry sits in the by-right, no-permit table referenced by § 445-46's general permit requirement, a home-based business does not need to apply for a sign permit to fly a compliant commercial flag; it only needs to stay within the two-flag count and the 15-square-foot ceiling the home-occupation column sets. The table's own footnote clarifies that the maximum sign areas are measured per side for a sign with two attached faces, and a separate line in the same table states that flags without any commercial message are not regulated by the sign chapter at all, so decorative flags fall outside this limit entirely.