Oregon, OH Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Billboards
- Prohibited citywide
- EMC flashing/scrolling
- Prohibited
- Minimum transition time
- 10 seconds
- EMC size cap
- 60% of display surface
- Enforcing office
- Commissioner of Building and Zoning
Summary
Oregon, Ohio bans billboards outright under its sign code. Where an electronic message center is otherwise allowed on a permitted sign, it can't flash or scroll, must hold each message for at least ten seconds before changing, and can only cover 60% of the sign's display surface.
Billboards as defined in Section 1337.02 (d) are prohibited. (k) Electronic Message Centers. (1) Shall be programmed to prohibit flashing or (movement) and shall prohibit any scrolling. (2) Change or transition period on such signs shall be no shorter than ten (10) seconds. (3) Size limited to 60% of the allowable display surface.
Full Breakdown
02(d), are prohibited citywide, in every zoning district, with no exception carved out. That forecloses digital billboards as a category entirely; there's no size, brightness or setback standard to meet because the structure itself can't be erected. 05(b)(10)A. 04(d). 03(l). Because billboards can't exist under current code, any electronic display marketed as a digital billboard, an off-site advertising screen not accessory to the use on the property where it stands, is treated as a prohibited billboard regardless of whether it also complies with the electronic message center rules.
Violations & Fines
Erecting a billboard, digital or static, is a prohibited sign under § 1337.04(j) and subject to removal citywide. An electronic message center on an otherwise permitted sign that flashes, scrolls, transitions faster than ten seconds, or exceeds 60% of the display surface violates § 1337.04(k), and the Commissioner of Building and Zoning can order the sign repaired or removed under § 1337.03(l).
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