Irvington, NJ Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Chapter 650, Article VII governs all signage in Irvington, and Sec. 650-31A makes a permit and fee mandatory for erecting, altering, or relocating almost any sign in the Township. Political signs get a narrow carve-out. Sec. 650-31C lists signs exempt from that permit requirement, and subsection (10) covers one nonilluminated, temporary sign per lot indicating a political preference, election, or event, as well as fund-raising signs for charitable or religious groups. The exemption still comes with hard numbers: the sign cannot exceed 12 square feet, cannot exceed eight feet in height, can go up no more than 60 days before the event it references, and if it is a facade or freestanding/changeable sign it must sit at least 10 feet from every lot line.

Being exempt from a permit does not exempt the sign from the rest of Article VII. Sec. 650-31E(2) still bars any sign, political or otherwise, from sitting within or over a public right-of-way, street, or sidewalk, and Sec. 650-31E(5) bars placement that obscures visibility and creates a traffic hazard. A political sign that outgrows 12 square feet, tops eight feet, goes up before the 60-day window opens, or crowds a lot line inside 10 feet loses its exempt status and becomes an unpermitted sign under Sec. 650-31A(4), which flatly prohibits any sign not specifically authorized by the article.