Mount Vernon, NY Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Maximum sign size
- 16 square feet
- Maximum sign height
- 4 feet
- Roof-mounted political signs
- Prohibited
- Owner consent
- Required if applicant doesn't own property
- Public property/right-of-way
- Not allowed
- Removal deadline
- 2 weeks after election/event
- Enforcing agency
- Building Department
Summary
Mount Vernon caps political and campaign signs at 16 square feet and four feet in height under City Code § 267-77G(9). Candidates or campaign managers must apply to the Commissioner and show owner consent if they don't own the property, and every sign must come down within two weeks after the election.
Political or campaign signs may be installed in accordance with the following provisions: (a) Any such sign may not be more than 16 square feet in area and not more than four feet in height. (b) No such sign may be a roof sign. (c) Applications will be made to the Commissioner by the candidate, the sponsor of a ballot measure or campaign manager or representative of said candidate or ballot measure, said application to show the size and location of all proposed signs. Where the applicant is not the owner of the property where the sign is to be displayed or installed, the application shall contain the consent of such owner or lessee. No political signs shall be erected on public property or rights-of-way. (d) All political or campaign signs shall be removed within two weeks after the election or the event advertised in the sign has occurred. Any political signs remaining after the event has occurred will be immediately subject to a violation from the Building Department.
Full Breakdown
Under § 267-77G(9)(a), a political or campaign sign cannot exceed 16 square feet in area or four feet in height, and subsection (b) bars any political sign from being mounted as a roof sign. Subsection (c) requires the candidate, ballot-measure sponsor, or campaign manager to apply to the Commissioner and disclose the size and location of every proposed sign; if the applicant does not own the property where the sign will sit, the application must include the property owner's or lessee's written consent. No political sign may be erected on public property or in a public right-of-way.
Subsection (d) sets a hard removal deadline: every political or campaign sign must come down within two weeks after the election or the event it advertises, and any sign left standing past that window is immediately subject to a violation from the Building Department. These rules sit within the broader temporary-sign provisions of § 267-77G, which also cover grand-opening banners, contractor signs, and real estate signs, but political signs get their own numbered subsection because the article exempts them from the political-content restriction that otherwise limits temporary sign advertising to the business located on the premises.
Violations & Fines
A political sign that exceeds the 16-square-foot/four-foot limit, sits on public property, lacks required owner consent, or remains up past the two-week post-election deadline is immediately subject to a violation from the Building Department under § 267-77G(9)(d), enforced through Chapter 267's general penalty at § 267-56A: up to a $1,000 fine or 15 days imprisonment per conviction, with continuing violations counted daily.
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