Ogden, UT Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Ogden regulates digital billboards under the single dedicated section 18-3-29, added by Ordinance 2005-68 and amended by Ordinance 2006-20 in 2006, which limits where electronic message display signs can go at all: only the C-1 neighborhood commercial zone, the A-C zone and the A-I (airport) zone allow them under Title 18. Within those zones, five conditions apply. First, every electronic message sign must have an automatic dimmer that reduces its intensity after dark, addressing the same glare concern the code raises for other illuminated signs.

, so a digital billboard in Ogden goes dark overnight. Third, the displayed message cannot flash or blink rapidly; a message can only change to a new one, and each message has to remain up for a minimum of three seconds, which rules out the rapid-cycling animation some digital billboards use elsewhere. Fourth, subsection D bars a sign from causing glare or being 'intensely lighted at dark' to the point that it creates a nuisance or hazard to vehicle traffic, pedestrians or neighboring residential properties, giving Building Services a standard to act on even where a sign meets the dimmer and hours rules.

Fifth, in the A-I and A-C zones near the airport, a digital sign cannot be oriented perpendicular to a runway or otherwise conflict with safe airport operation, layering an aviation-safety check onto the zoning limit. Because off-premises signs have been banned as a new use citywide since 2001 under section 18-3-27, a lawful digital sign in Ogden is almost always an on-premises electronic message sign in one of these three zones rather than a freeway billboard converted to digital copy.