Burlington County does not regulate political signs on private property; that is municipal zoning under the Municipal Land Use Law. In county parks, however, no signs or notices may be posted without written permission of the Board.
On your own yard, political-sign rules (size, number, how long before/after an election) come from your municipality's sign ordinance, adopted under N.J.S.A. 40:55D-65, not from Burlington County. Note that municipal sign rules must respect free-speech limits set by courts. The one place the county does control signs is on Parks System property: the Burlington County Parks System Rules and Regulations flatly prohibit posting signs or notices, distributing advertisements, or soliciting without the written permission of the Board of County Commissioners. So a campaign sign can go in your yard subject to town rules, but not on county park grounds.
In county parks, violators are treated as disorderly persons and escorted out; refusing to leave leads to prosecution as a defiant trespasser.
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