Walton County, GA Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Walton County Code § 14-89 confines electronic signs to commercial and industrial zoning districts; they are not permitted in agricultural or residential districts. The section then sets four timing floors and ceilings governing how a message changes. No message may be displayed for less than one second, and no message may repeat at intervals shorter than two seconds, which together stop rapid flicker between static messages. A segmented message, where a single message is built up in pieces, cannot run longer than ten seconds total.

Traveling or scrolling text is bounded on both ends: it cannot travel slower than 16 light columns per second, and it cannot travel faster than 32 light columns per second. An electronic sign still has to fit within whatever base sign type it belongs to, so a ground-mounted electronic sign in a commercial district also has to meet the area and height caps in § 14-91 for that district, and a wall-mounted electronic display has to meet the wall sign standards in § 14-100. A sign permit under § 14-103 is required before an electronic sign is erected, and any electrical wiring for the sign requires a separate electrical permit under § 14-103(a)(5).