Queen Creek, AZ Sign Regulations: Political Signs (2026)

Political signs get some of the lightest treatment in Queen Creek's sign code precisely because Arizona law limits how far a municipality can regulate them. 4 of the Zoning Ordinance states plainly that political and campaign signs on behalf of candidates for public office or urging action on primary, general or special election ballots are permitted in all zoning districts and that they do not require a sign permit. The section also confirms that nothing contained in it shall prevent the erection, construction, and maintenance of signs authorized and protected by Arizona Revised Statutes, folding the Town's local rule directly into the state's election-sign statute rather than layering a separate local restriction on top of it.

e requires such a sign to include the name and telephone number or website address of the candidate or campaign committee contact person, a disclosure requirement rather than a placement or size limit. On private property, a political sign may go up anywhere with the property owner's permission, again with no permit and no stated size cap in this section. The Town Code adds a criminal backstop the Zoning Ordinance does not: Section 9-9-4, Damage to Property; Malicious Mischief, makes it unlawful, without proper authorization, to knowingly remove, destroy, alter, deface, or cover any political sign in the Town, defining a political sign broadly as any sign erected for the purpose of influencing an election.

That subsection carves out the candidate, the candidate's authorized agent, and the property owner from liability for taking down their own signs, and makes a violation by anyone else a Class 1 Misdemeanor, adopted by Ordinance 764-21 on September 15, 2021.