Effingham County, GA Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

Sec. 62-31, in force since October 4, 1983, applies Article II to every outdoor advertising sign abutting or visible from the Interstate 16 and Interstate 95 rights-of-way in the county, including any sign advertising an activity, business, product, or service. Signs on sites abutting or visible from those interstates must also conform to O.C.G.A. § 32-6-70 et seq., the Georgia Outdoor Advertising Code, and meet all federal and state permitting requirements, but where the county's own controls are stricter than the state code, the county's rule governs.

Sec. 62-32 separately bans signs that imitate warning signals or traffic-signal colors and shapes, signs placed in a street or highway right-of-way other than official traffic or informational signs, signs painted on or attached to trees, rocks, telephone poles, or fence posts, fluttering ribbons and banners, and any sign within 300 feet of a designated historical site. For the outdoor advertising signs themselves, Sec. 62-33(g) sets uniform outside dimensions of 12 feet in height by 50 feet in length, requires base-mounted, photoelectric-cell illumination while banning neon, animation, and running lights, sets a minimum height of ten feet above the interstate pavement and a maximum of 30 feet, requires at least 500 feet between sign locations and at least ten feet from any property or right-of-way line, and allows only three outdoor advertising signs per interchange quadrant within a defined 1,200-foot commercial or industrial zone.