Pomona, CA Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)
Key Facts
- Placement window
- Close of nomination/qualification until election
- Removal deadline
- Monday following the election
- City removal trigger
- 7 days past removal deadline
- Removal cost billed to
- Candidate or political organization
- Public property signs
- Never allowed, min. $25 abatement cost
Summary
Pomona allows political signs on private property in any zoning district only during the election window, from the close of candidate nomination or ballot measure qualification until election day. City Code Sec. 42-2 requires removal by the Monday after the election.
Sec. 42-2. - Political signs. Signs advertising candidates or measures or any other noncommercial activity shall be permitted on private property in any zoning district during each local, special district, state or national election from the date of the close of nomination of candidates or qualification for ballot measures until election. All such signs erected or posted on private property shall be removed by the Monday following the election. Signs not removed within seven days of the deadline specified in this section shall be removed by the city at the expense of the political candidate or responsible political organization.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: City Code: Supplement 31).
Full Breakdown
Sec. " That window ties the legal placement period to the county or state election calendar rather than a fixed number of days before the vote, so it can shift election to election. Once the vote is held, every sign posted under this section on private property must come down by the Monday following the election. If a sign is not removed within seven days of that Monday deadline, the city itself removes it, and Sec. 42-2 puts the cost of that removal on "the expense of the political candidate or responsible political organization," not the property owner.
Sec. 42-2 sits in Chapter 42, Signs, immediately after the general Sec. 42-1 rule against posting any sign on public property without a permit; that companion section makes clear political signs still cannot go on city-owned poles, medians or right-of-way even during the permitted private-property window, since Sec. 00 assessed against whoever posted it or benefits from it.
Violations & Fines
A political sign left up on private property past the Monday following the election, and not removed within the following seven days, is removed by the city, with the cost charged to the candidate or the responsible political organization rather than treated as a fine on the property owner. A political sign posted on public property at any time is separately a nuisance under Sec. 42-1, remediable by criminal proceeding, civil proceeding, or city abatement carrying a presumed minimum cost of $25.00 assessed against the person who posted it, the person or business advertised, and the property owner where an advertised activity is held.
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