Babylon, NY Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Off-premises billboards
- Prohibited
- Changing light/color signs
- Prohibited
- Exception
- Time/temperature displays only
- Visual projection signs
- Prohibited
Summary
Town of Babylon Code bans off-premises advertising signs outright and requires all signs to hold light stationary in intensity and color, so digital or changing-message billboards are prohibited townwide.
No sign shall advertise, announce, refer to or call attention to any business, commercial product or commercial service not performed on or connected with the property or building on which the sign is located. ... No sign, with the exception of theater marquee signs, shall be designed, constructed or maintained on which artificial or reflected light is not maintained stationary and constant in intensity and color at all times, except for that part of a sign which displays the time and/or temperature exclusively.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: rev 4941158; v66 updated 2026-05-13; through 05-13-2026).
Full Breakdown
Under Town of Babylon Code § 213-393, no sign may advertise a business, product, or service not located on the premises where the sign sits, which bars off-premises billboards of any kind. Section 213-395A separately bars artificial or reflected light from changing in intensity or color, except for a time-and-temperature display, and bars any visual projection, ruling out digital message displays even on-site. The combined effect is a townwide ban on billboard and electronic-message signage.
Violations & Fines
Erecting an off-premises billboard or a sign with changing digital copy violates §§ 213-393 and 213-395; the Building Inspector can deny or revoke the sign permit and order the sign removed as a code violation.
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