Hamburg Village, NY Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Political signs fall under the lawn sign and noncommercial sign provisions of § 250-35.14 of the Village of Hamburg Code, the list of signs allowed without a sign permit. The Code carries no separate political sign section. Its definition of a lawn sign in § 250-51.1 names political campaigns, garage sales, and charitable events as examples of what lawn signs advertise, and it treats lawn signs as temporary signs.

For a lawn sign, no sign exceeds three feet in height and six square feet in area, the cumulative area of all signs on the lot does not exceed 12 square feet, no sign is displayed for more than 30 days in a sixty-day period, and no sign is illuminated. A separate noncommercial sign allowance gives any use one sign without a commercial message, up to three feet in height and six feet in area as the Code prints it, not illuminated, and not above the first floor of any structure. The Code does not say which of the two allowances governs a given campaign sign, so both sets of limits are printed here.

Location rules from the rest of the sign article also apply. Section 250-35.9A bars signs on public property or within a public right-of-way unless the Village Board approves. Section 250-35.13C prohibits signs placed on a curb, sidewalk, hydrant, utility pole, tree, or other object in the public right-of-way. Section 250-35.9E sets a ten-foot setback from all property lines unless otherwise noted in the chapter, and the lawn sign provision prints no other setback.

Section 250-35.14 adds that permit-exempt signs must conform to all other applicable requirements of the chapter or they are subject to removal by the Code Enforcement Officer. After a removal, the owner gets written notice, and the Code Enforcement Officer can dispose of a sign left unclaimed for 10 days (§ 250-35.12D).