Political signs are allowed on private property across Saginaw County. The county and the City of Saginaw, Saginaw Township, and Frankenmuth treat them as temporary signs with size limits; content-based rules are unconstitutional after Reed v. Gilbert. Signs in the road right-of-way get removed.
In unincorporated Saginaw County and inside its cities and villages, political and other temporary signs are allowed on private property within the local zoning or sign code's size limits, and a yard sign generally needs no permit. Placement is the catch: signs staked in a public road right-of-way or on utility poles are prohibited and removed. Along state trunkline highways — I-75, M-13, M-46, M-84 — the Michigan Department of Transportation controls signs under the Highway Advertising Act (MCL 252.301 et seq.). Since Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015), no local government here may treat a sign more strictly because of its message.
A political sign in a county or state road right-of-way is removed by the road agency or MDOT. Oversized or off-premise signs draw a zoning correction notice. Many local codes set a removal deadline after the election.
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