Mission, TX Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Message rule
- Static only, no animation or flashing
- Buffer distance
- 500 ft from schools, parks, churches
- Where allowed
- Expressway and secondary arterial corridors only
- Penalty
- Misdemeanor, fine under Sec. 1-14
Summary
Mission's sign code allows digital billboards only in the expressway and secondary arterial corridors, requires static non-flashing messages, and bars placement within 500 feet of schools, parks, or churches.
Digital billboards means any commercial billboard sign utilizing digital message technology, capable of changing the static message or copy on the sign electronically. Digital billboards shall contain static messages only and shall not have animation, movement or the appearance or optical illusion of movement. Each static message shall not include flashing, scintillating lighting or the varying of light intensity.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 31).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 86-41 defines digital billboards as commercial billboard signs using digital message technology that may change electronically but must show static messages only: no animation, movement, or optical illusion of movement, and no flashing, scintillating lighting, or varying light intensity. Under Sec. 86-155, off-premises billboards (including LED/digital) are restricted to the expressway and secondary arterial corridors, subject to size, height, and spacing limits, and Sec. 86-155(5)f specifically bars LED or digital billboards within 500 linear feet of a church, park, or school.
Violations & Fines
Violating the sign chapter is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine under Sec. 1-14; a nonconforming or improperly placed digital billboard is subject to city removal action and, per Sec. 86-42(f), the owner must correct or remove an unsafe or noncompliant sign within ten days of written notice.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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