Ventura County, CA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)
Key Facts
- Flashing/moving signs
- Prohibited outright
- Only exceptions
- Clocks, time-temperature signs
- Also banned
- Color-changing signs
- Governing section
- Sec. 8110-4(c), (e)
Summary
Unincorporated Ventura County bans any sign that flashes, scintillates, moves or rotates: a blanket prohibition that rules out standard digital and electronic billboard displays outright.
The following signs and sign types are prohibited:
a.Sandwich-board, A-frame and portable freestanding signs;b.Bench signs, except at bus stops designated on a valid bus schedule;c.Signs which flash, scintillate, move or rotate, except for clocks and time and temperature signs;
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 51).
Full Breakdown
Section 8110-4's list of prohibited signs bars fixtures that flash, scintillate, move or rotate, with only a narrow carve-out for clocks and time-and-temperature signs. The same section separately bans signs that change color or appear to change color, except on a temporary basis under a specific permitted category. Together these rules effectively prohibit typical LED/digital billboard displays anywhere in the unincorporated county; incorporated cities like Oxnard and Thousand Oaks set their own sign codes.
Violations & Fines
Installing a flashing, scintillating, moving, rotating, or color-changing sign, including a digital billboard, violates Sec. 8110-4 and is enforced as a zoning code violation subject to citation and removal by County Code Compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can a business install a digital billboard in unincorporated Ventura County?
Are any moving or changing signs allowed?
Sources & Official References
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