Inglewood, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Two layers of law govern political yard signs in Inglewood. Statewide, Civil Code Section 4710 strips homeowner association governing documents of the power to prohibit noncommercial signs, posters, flags, or banners displayed in a member's yard, window, door, balcony, or on an outside wall, and the only carve-outs are public health or safety needs or a conflicting local, state, or federal law. Section 4710(b) limits what qualifies for that protection: paper, cardboard, cloth, plastic, or fabric signage only, never lights, roofing, siding, paving materials, flora, or balloons, and never painted directly onto a building surface.

Section 4710(c) then sets the size ceiling an association may still enforce: no more than 9 square feet for a noncommercial sign or poster, and no more than 15 square feet for a noncommercial flag or banner. Within Inglewood itself, Municipal Code Section 12-74(D) separately exempts political signs from the City's sign-permit requirement, but only on the condition that they come down within 10 days of the election they support. Any political sign larger than 32 square feet loses that automatic exemption and must clear a structural review by the Building Division before it goes up, the same safety check the code applies to other freestanding sign structures of that size.

Both layers apply at once: an HOA cannot use its CC&Rs to ban a resident's modest yard sign before an election, while the City's post-election removal deadline and large-sign structural check apply City-wide regardless of HOA status.