Bay County treats garage-sale signs as temporary signs under Chapter 30 of its Land Development Regulations. Keep them on private property with the owner's permission, out of the public right-of-way, off utility poles, and take them down promptly after the sale.
Bay County's Chapter 30 sign standards cover temporary signs, the category that includes garage and yard-sale advertising, without singling them out. Signs may go on private property with the owner's permission, but they are prohibited in the public right-of-way and on utility poles, traffic signs, and other public property; the county may remove and impound signs placed there. Off-site directional signs need the consent of whoever owns that lot. Post signs close to the sale date and remove them right after it ends so they are not treated as abandoned snipe signs. Inside Panama City, Panama City Beach, and Lynn Haven, city sign codes apply instead, and HOAs may set their own limits.
Signs in the right-of-way, stapled to utility poles, or left up after the sale are removed and impounded by the county, and repeat offenders may receive a code-enforcement citation.
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