Yuba County, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Allowed uses
- Fuel price, hotel rate, event, time/temp signs
- General digital billboards
- Not an authorized use
- Standards
- Follow existing wall/freestanding sign rules
- Citation
- Yuba County Code § 11.27.110(8)(a)
Summary
Unincorporated Yuba County restricts programmable electronic signs to a short list of allowed uses -- fuel prices, hotel rates, on-premises event notices, time/temperature, and government postings -- barring general digital billboards.
Programmable electronic signs are allowed on the site of the following uses and for the following purposes:1.On the site of a service station, in order to display the price of fuel.2.On the site of a Hotel or Motel, in order to display room rates and vacancies.3.On the site of a theater, cinema, stadium, auditorium, church, or similar community assembly, cultural institution, indoor entertainment and recreation, and outdoor entertainment uses, programmable electronic signs shall be limited to advertisement or notification of events occurring solely on the premises or within the immediate community. Signs may also be used to post emergency information.4.In order to display time and temperature.5.Governmental signs for posting public and community information.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 6).
Full Breakdown
Section 11.27.110(8) permits programmable electronic signs only on the sites of specific enumerated uses: service stations displaying fuel prices, hotels or motels displaying room rates and vacancies, theaters and similar assembly uses limited to advertising their own on-site or immediate-community events, signs showing time and temperature, and government signs posting public information. Electronic displays otherwise follow the same freestanding- and wall-sign standards as static signs under Section 11.27.080. Because the list is exhaustive, a stand-alone commercial digital billboard advertising off-site businesses or products is not an authorized use anywhere in the unincorporated county.
Violations & Fines
Erecting a programmable electronic sign outside these listed uses lacks zoning clearance and is enforceable as an illegal sign, subject to removal under the Sign Chapter's abatement provisions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a business put up an electronic billboard advertising products in unincorporated Yuba County?
Are gas station electronic price signs allowed?
Sources & Official References
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