Jupiter, FL Outdoor Lighting: Billboard Lighting (2026)

Town Code § 27-1 defines a billboard as a wall-mounted or freestanding sign carrying a commercial or noncommercial message that advertises a product, service or business not located at the sign's site, the classic off-premises format. Section 27-3304 lists that exact category, billboard signs, as item (10) among the signs that shall not be permitted, erected or maintained within any zoning district in the town, alongside other outright bans like flashing or moving signs and off-premises signage generally. Because the structure itself is banned townwide, no lighting standard exists for it: the town's actual sign-lighting rules only apply to signs that are otherwise lawful.

Section 27-3358(n) requires that any freestanding or wall-mounted sign over ten feet tall be internally lit if lit at all, and that signage under fifteen feet use shielding so its light does not blind or shine onto adjacent vehicular or pedestrian traffic. Every sign application, per § 27-3327(b)(5), must disclose the lighting used and total lumens or wattage before a permit issues, and signs larger than 24 square feet need a state-registered engineer's compliance calculations. None of that machinery can legally be invoked for a billboard, since § 27-3304(10) forecloses the sign category before lighting is ever reached.