Nassau County, FL Sign Regulations: Freeway-Facing Signs (2026)

03 of the Land Development Code lists prohibited signs for all unincorporated land in Nassau County, and two of its clauses eliminate freeway-facing billboard advertising as a use. Subsection (J) prohibits billboards by name, with no size or district exception carved out elsewhere in the article. Subsection (K) separately prohibits "off-premise signs," the broader category that covers any sign advertising a business, product or activity not located on the same parcel as the sign, which is exactly the model a freeway billboard depends on. Subsection (I) reinforces the ban along road corridors by prohibiting any sign in a public right-of-way unless a government entity placed it there for traffic control, public safety or wayfinding purposes.

Together the three clauses mean a landowner along a state highway or interstate frontage road in unincorporated Nassau County cannot lease space for an off-site advertising sign, no matter how the structure is built or how far it sits from the road. 02; those overlays govern lighting, illumination and character rather than reopening the billboard ban. The current version of the section was adopted by Ordinance No. 2025-020 on July 28, 2025, replacing the county's older sign ordinance, and it is administered by the Planning and Economic Opportunity Department alongside the Building Department, which issues ground-sign permits for on-premise signage that remains allowed.