Casper, WY Sign Regulations: Holiday Displays (2026)

Section 17.96.020(A) lists twelve categories of signs that need no sign permit or permit fee, and the third is 'temporary decorations or displays, clearly incidental and customarily associated with national, state, or local holiday celebrations.' That single clause covers everything from string lights and wreaths to inflatable yard displays and window scenes tied to Christmas, Halloween, the Fourth of July or any other recognized holiday, without a building permit or the fee the city otherwise charges under Section 17.96.090(D). The exemption only waives the permit and fee.

The opening line of Section 17.96.020(A) requires every listed sign, including holiday displays, to still comply with all other applicable provisions of Title 17: the illumination standards in Section 17.96.020(C) (no light that shines directly onto adjoining residential areas or creates a traffic hazard), the intersection sight-triangle rule in Section 17.96.020(D), and the prohibited-sign list in Section 17.96.020(B), which bars anything that could be mistaken for a traffic control device or that obstructs a required exit. Unlike two of its neighbors on the same exempt-sign list, real estate signs (three days after closing) and garage-sale signs (seventy-two hours), the holiday-decoration exemption carries no printed removal deadline; the code ties the exemption to the holiday itself rather than to a fixed number of days, so a homeowner or business isn't required to take a display down by a set date the way a yard-sale sign owner is.