Washington County, UT Sign Regulations: Digital Billboards (2026)

Washington County's ban on off-premises advertising sits in § 10-19-3(B)(12), within the commercial, industrial and manufacturing zone sign standards. It states plainly that off-premises or billboard signs are prohibited, meaning no sign anywhere in those zones may advertise a business, product or activity that isn't actually conducted on the parcel where the sign stands; a sign that only exists to advertise a use elsewhere is a billboard for purposes of this rule regardless of what it's labeled. A billboard legally in place before the current rule took effect is grandfathered as a nonconforming use rather than ordered removed outright, but the same paragraph closes off a technology loophole: even a legally existing sign cannot be retrofitted with flashing, intermittent or moving lights, expressly naming electronic or digital display technology such as LED and LCD panels.

That means a longstanding billboard cannot be converted into a digital billboard that rotates advertising content, and a new digital or LED display of any kind is barred outright in these zones. The prohibition sits alongside the chapter's separate ban on animated signs generally, § 10-19-3(B)(7), which bars flashing, message boards, and animation on any freestanding, low profile or monument sign, on or off premises, reinforcing that Washington County treats moving or changing sign images as incompatible with its sign code no matter the technology used to produce them.