Wyoming, MI Sign Regulations: Holiday Displays (2026)

Chapter 90, Article 7 of the Wyoming Code of Ordinances (the city's zoning sign article; this is Wyoming, Kent County, Michigan, not the state of Wyoming) governs every sign in the city, including seasonal lighting. Table 90-704, the prohibited-signs table, lists 'string lights used for commercial purposes' as banned citywide, then carves out a single exception: string lights displayed as holiday decorations between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. Read together with Sec. 90-705(5), the general illumination standards, the code separately bans glaring undiffused lights or bulbs on any sign, except that bare bulbs are permitted for holiday lighting under Sec.

90-705(5)(c). The next subsection, 90-705(5)(d), independently bans bare bulbs, neon, luminous tubing and flames as illumination methods for permanent signs, so the holiday carve-out in (c) is the only lawful route to run exposed bulbs on a business sign. Chapter 90's brightness ceiling for illuminated signs, 2,000 units in daylight and 500 units from a half hour before sunset to a half hour after sunrise per Sec. 90-705(5)(d), still applies to any holiday lighting mounted on or forming part of a sign structure. The rule reaches commercial displays across every zoning district from B-1 through I-3 and the Form Based Code areas along 28th Street, Division Avenue and Burton Street.

Purely decorative residential holiday lights not affixed to or functioning as a sign fall outside Article 7's definition of 'sign' and are not reached by Table 90-704.