Oyster Bay, NY Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

4 as any sign that blinks or uses movement or lighting changes to depict action or create a special effect. The code carves out narrow exceptions from the changeable-copy category: electronic or mechanical time-and-temperature displays, nonelectronic manually changeable signs, and fast-food drive-thru menu boards, which are instead treated as ordinary freestanding or building signs. None of this matters unless the sign type clears the town's general sign gate first. 1 repeats that any sign type not listed in the Schedule of Permitted Sign Types is deemed prohibited.

That schedule, along with the companion schedules fixing permitted sign number, height, setback and area, is maintained as a separate attachment to Chapter 246 rather than printed in the body text, so whether digital or animated signs are affirmatively listed as a permitted type in any particular zoning district turns on that schedule. What is fixed and readable directly in the code is the eight-times-a-day threshold that separates a regulated changeable-copy sign from a prohibited-unless-permitted animated sign, and the town-wide default that any sign type omitted from the schedule cannot be erected at all.