Kitsap County, WA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

040, the county's prohibited signs list, states plainly that "stationary or mobile billboards" are banned, item K on a list that also bars flashing, rotating, and animated signs. That ban is categorical: it doesn't distinguish static billboards from digital or electronic ones, and nothing in the code carves out an exception for LED or changeable-message billboard technology. 080, Regulations for electronic signs, allows certain on-premises electronic message signs in commercial and industrial zones within an urban growth area, and for schools, churches, and government uses, with hold times of at least eight seconds per message, fade transitions of at least one second, and brightness capped at three-tenths of a foot-candle above ambient light.

040(K) billboard ban. An off-premises digital billboard remains a billboard under the county's own definition and stays prohibited countywide in the unincorporated area, whatever illumination method is used. This ban does not reach Bremerton, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, or Bainbridge Island, each of which regulates signs under its own municipal code.