Garage-sale signs face no Madison County zoning rule on your own property. But Alabama Code §23-1-6 makes it illegal to plant a sign in a state highway right-of-way, and the county bars signs in its own right-of-way and easements, which covers most roadside placements.
The county does not regulate garage-sale or yard-sale signs on private property; its zoning imposes no signage requirements, so an owner may post one in their own yard freely. The catch is placement off your land. Section 23-1-6 prohibits signs, markers, and advertising on the rights-of-way of state-controlled highways except official ones, and Madison County separately prohibits private signs within county rights-of-way and public easements — together covering the strip along most roads where people stake sale signs. ALDOT and county crews remove them. Inside a subdivision, the homeowners' association's deed restrictions control temporary signs and often limit sale signs to the day of the event. There is no county permit for a garage-sale sign placed on your own property.
Signs in a state highway right-of-way violate §23-1-6 and are removed by ALDOT; signs in a county right-of-way or easement are removed by the county. HOA sign violations draw the covenant fines the association sets.
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