Yavapai County, AZ Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

2 of the county's General Provisions for signs is a flat prohibition, not a permit process: no sign, or any part of one, may rotate, move, or simulate movement through fluttering, spinning or reflection devices, and no sign may contain an electronic message device, with the single carved-out exception of time-and-temperature displays. The same subsection bars signs from flashing, blinking, being audible, or being animated by any means, including banners, pennants or devices moved by wind, and it separately prohibits any sign attached to or suspended from a hot air or helium balloon.

Because a digital or electronic billboard is by definition an electronic message device, and because Section 601's own definitions classify a billboard as an off-premise sign advertising a business from a different property, no application for a digital billboard can be approved anywhere in the unincorporated county outside that narrow time-and-temperature carve-out. A limited seven-day exception exists only for a Grand Opening event tied to a change of ownership, a new location, or a floor-area expansion of at least 25%, and even that requires a Temporary Sign Permit first. 6, further limiting what a large-format sign structure could look like even if the electronic-message ban were not in play.